A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing trees, but whether it used them for that purpose is still unknown.

Hominins — the group that includes humans and our extinct relatives — may have been capable of competing with giant hyenas for carcasses abandoned by sabre-toothed cats and jaguars during the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. One of the most enduring mysteries about our earliest ancestors ...