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

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

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

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

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

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...