How did early human ancestors obtain their food? It may sound like a trivial question, but it has significant implications ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

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 ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...