More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled a fascinating chapter in human history, as stone tools provide compelling evidence of ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

New fossil finds in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei had human-like hands and feet, ending a long debate over its ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Recent analysis of ancient antelope teeth has provided unexpected insights into the lives of early humans, challenging ...

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought. WASHINGTON (AP) — Early human ancestors during the Old ...