Israeli researchers uncovered dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments containing biblical texts dating back ...

The presumed tool making abilities of habilis were not enough to convince many anthropologists that they should be named ‘Homo’. The species of the genus Homo have large brains, a more modern ...

It was first hypothesised that Homo floresiensis was a dwarfed descendant of early Asian Homo erectus. Another theory is that the ‘Hobbit’ is a late-surviving remnant of a more ancient hominin from ...

This early hobbit was 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) shorter than the original Homo floresiensis specimen, an almost complete skeleton found in the Liang Bua cave — around 75 kilometers (46.6 miles ...

Homo habilis Unlike their ancestors, the Homo habilis also ate meat. They are known for having developed a range of tools, hence their name, which means "handy man." ...

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of our genus have walked Earth: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo ...

New fossils from the dawn of the human lineage suggest our ancestors may have lived alongside a diversity of extinct human species, researchers say. Although modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the ...

Homo habilis Living between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago, Homo habilis is known as the “handy man” because this species was associated with the creation of stone tools. Homo habilis had a larger ...

(The equivalent in H. sapiens averages just over 1,300 CC.) Other features seen in H. habilis specimens, including a relatively large facial skeleton with a flattened lower part and particularly long ...