The major resemblance between teeth and bones is what they're made of: hard tissue composed of minerals, such as calcium, ...

The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

A major fossil discovery about our ancient ancestor has occurred in Kenya. Researchers have found hand and foot bones belonging to Paranthropus boisei — an extinct human relative who lived over 1.5 ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

TEHRAN-- The Regional Museum of Southeastern Iran, with its display of a treasure trove of ancient and anthropological ...

Researchers have taken a massive step toward solving a decades-long paleontological mystery—did Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human cousin, make tools? The discovery of the first hand and foot bones ...

In a new paper in Science, experts from the University of Chicago describe steps that took place some 66 million years ago to ...

After more than a century of keeping time, this Tribeca clocktower at 108 Leonard has a new job: keeping house.