Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

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

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

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

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human evolution.

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

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 ...

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 ...