Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

With the tried-and-true education adage “It takes a village to raise a child” in mind, the largest and fastest-growing school district in the Pikes Peak region brought together local leaders Friday to ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...