Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human relative dating to 1.52 million years ago, revealing that this species would ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

The discovery of fossils within the depths of the waters highlighted some of the unknown species that colonized the region. It was the case with the new fossil named ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

What we found About 4% of individuals had lesions. Some looked almost identical to the classic "toothpick grooves" of fossil humans, complete with fine parallel scratches and tapering shapes. Others ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...