Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

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

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

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

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of 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 ...