Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

Learn more about how a recent fossil discovery has added a new species to the list of prehistoric humans who walked on two ...

A newly discovered fossil from a human ancestor, estimated to be between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old, has further complicated the already tangled story of human evolution. Found in northern ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...

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The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...