For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

This fossil upper jawbone, dubbed OH-65, belonged to a Homo habilis individual who lived and died 1.8 million years ago. Her teeth show the earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record.

Human evolution had a nice clear line from Lucy 3.2 million years ago to Homo habilis to Homo erectus and finally Homo sapiens -- us. Or so it seemed. A new jawbone shows that humans evolved ...

What We Know About Homo Habilis 'Homo habilis' lived at least 2 million years ago in parts of Africa. Learn why experts still aren't sure if this was the first ancient human to exist.

Even today, paleoanthropologists believe that Homo habilis transformed smoothly into Homo erectus, which gave rise to Homo sapiens.

Original Object Holding Institution National Museums of Kenya (Kenya) Location of Discovery Koobi Fora, Kenya Site Koobi Fora, Kenya NMNH - Anthropology Dept. Original Object Identifier KNM-ER 1470 ...

In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an adult limb bone so tiny it ...

Over the years, previous analysis of the mandible and teeth have suggested affinities with a variety of early Homo species including not only H. erectus but also Homo habilis or Homo rudolfensis.

Original Object Holding Institution National Museums of Kenya (Kenya) Location of Discovery Koobi Fora, Kenya Site Koobi Fora, Kenya NMNH - Anthropology Dept. Original Object Identifier KNM-ER 1813 ...