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A Giant Kangaroo Bone Is Challenging the Idea That Humans Wiped Out Australia’s Megafauna
Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...
Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and gorilla-like strength.
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Fossil hand from human relative puzzles scientists with mix of human- and gorilla-like features
Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.
After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...
Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...
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Early humans in Australia were fossil hunters
A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, ...
Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...
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Discovery of First Fossil Hand Linked to P. Boisei Suggests the Bygone Human Relative Could Have Used Tools
The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...
The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were discovered ...
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