A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

A statistical analysis was made of cheek teeth of Plio/Pleistocene hominids. Samples used were Kenya National Museum specimens usually classified as Homo habilis and Australopithecus boisei, and ...

Homo habilis ("handy man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3–1.65 million years ago (mya). Upon species description in 1964, H.

When it comes to names, it's certainly a hard one to pronounce or spell but that hasn't kept an old - as in really, really old - lady from making the news today. Lucy the Australopithecus is what ...

The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis The extraordinary manipulative skills of the human hand are viewed ...

A new study of early human ancestors who lived millions of years ago suggests that they were largely vegetarian, despite the fact that stone tools and cut animal bones have been found from that same ...