With massive jaws and skulls built for power, Paranthropus boisei, robustus, and aethiopicus roamed Africa between 2.7 and 1 million years ago. Nicknamed the “Nutcracker Men,” these pre-humans lived ...

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New study suggests homo habilis were not master predators and were hunted by leopards around 2 million years ago Homo habilis may not have been the "king" of the forest, according to a new study ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

Next time you're trying to size someone up, take a look at their thumbs. If they have particularly long thumbs, they might be especially clever, a new study suggests. Scientists at the universities of ...

A new study of fossil antelope teeth from South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind has challenged a decades-old hypothesis about a dramatic ancient environmental shift that may have shaped early human ...

Collateral sensitivity, in which resistance to one antibiotic results in increased sensitivity to another antibiotic, is a strategy to reduce the evolution of antibiotic resistance. This Review ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Left molars from the Ledi-Geraru specimen (left) and a specimen from Hadar, another fossil site in Ethiopia (right). “LD 760 molars compared to A. afarensis.” by  Villmoare et al. from Nature ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Daily Mail has asked some of the leading evolution experts why, if humans evolved out of primates, do monkeys and apes still ...