Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear.

Explore how early humans crafted tools from bones 1.5 million years ago, showcasing their advanced planning and cognitive ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans ... sheds light on how long humans in the Americas have had relationships with the ancestors of today's dogs -- and ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...