Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

Feedback isn't entirely convinced by a new piece of research that claims by 2339 "there will be no humans", even though the ...

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

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

Fossils of hands and feet belonging to an extinct human relative that lived about 1.52 million years ago suggests they were ...

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

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...