For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it ...

The human race is even older than we thought, and a new discovery has changed everything we thought we knew about our species’ earliest days walking on Earth. A major discovery analysed in a new paper ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...