Officials have determined that a leg bone found by a dog in December and a skull found months earlier belong to the same person. The coroner's office said that the left tibia, which is a bone in ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Lucy's pelvic, hip, and leg bones offered more proof. As in a human, Lucy's thighbones (femurs) angle in from the hip toward the knee. Her shinbones (tibiae) then descend straight to the ground ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia (a lower leg bone) indicate that A. anamensis walked on two feet. This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first ...

PRESENTER:'Our skeleton has over 200 bones from the largest - our leg bone, or our femur ... Biological processes of the human body. You could get a skeleton model and connect rubber bands ...

While older bone tools have been discovered ... How far back in time must we go for our ancestors to be not human, but apes walking on two legs? And what's needed to qualify as "human" anyway?

PARIS: Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution ... tools made out of the leg and arm bones of ...