An international research team reports an unusually well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton that dates to just over 2 million ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Since the discovery of the fossil 42 years ago this month, paleontologists have debated whether the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor, dubbed Lucy, spent all of her time walking on the ground or ...