Prominent paleoanthropologist, Meave Leakey, provides an excellent overview of how we know what we know about human evolution as revealed by her research career and life in Kenya The Sediments of Time ...

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

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years.

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree. For 20 years, ...

Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what scientists can say about one of your ...

WASHINGTON -- Our family tree may have sprouted some long-lost branches going back nearly 2 million years. A famous paleontology family has found fossils that they think confirm their theory that ...

Fossil hunter Meave Leakey was out in the scorched hills near Kenya's Lake Turkana last year, measuring prehistoric pig jaws, when her colleague Wambua Mangao shouted there was something she needed to ...

Paleontologist Maeve Leakey talks with Ray Suarez about her recent discovery: a skull three and a half million years old that could provide clues to the ancestors of homo sapiens. Last week, the human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long thumb and straight fingers would have allowed Paranthropus boisei to form a powerful grip, similar to how modern humans ...

Researchers have discovered a new kind of glycan (sugar chain) that survives even in a 4-million-year-old animal fossil from Kenya, under conditions where ancient DNA does not. While ancient hominin ...