Scientists have unearthed the oldest modern-looking hand bone from a human ancestor at a site in Africa, demonstrating that features we take for granted, like the ability to grip, go much further back ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools. Even with recovered foot fossils, Mongle’s team ...

Archaeologists found 1.5-million-year-old hand fossils belonging to an ape-like early human relative. The shape of the bones suggest that their owner, a species called Paranthropus boisei, was capable ...

The hominin finger bone likely came from the pinky finger of an adult left hand. Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a hand bone to resemble that of a modern human, and they suggest ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

Excavations at Tanzania’s famed Olduvai Gorge have uncovered the oldest known fossil hand bone resembling those of people today. The bone from a hominid’s left pinkie finger dates to at least 1.84 ...

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