Thousands of slate artifacts found on the Tibetan Plateau showcase the resiliency of early humans as they fanned out of ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

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 ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...