A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

With the analysis of seven hominin fossils discovered in 2014, researchers are now adding another piece to the human evolution puzzle. Also in this episode: we add a new face to the SciShow team!

STONY BROOK, NY — A new study reveals that an "ancient human relative" could grip, and had "surprising dexterity," Stony Brook University said. For more than half a century, scientists have debated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers Carrie Mongle and Meave Leakey discuss Paranthropus boisei hand fossils, held in the cases pictured, at the Turkana ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic jaw and powerfully constructed biting muscles. Its coarse-grass and reed ...

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's ...

Learn more about the animals that were living inside the 'lost world' of this New Zealand cave.

Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

(Reuters) -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 ...