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

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

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

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

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

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

As we wait for the Alisera to arrive, White explains that the team returns to this hostile spot year after year because it’s the only place in the world to yield fossils that span such a long stretch ...

She is not the oldest member of the extended human family, but she is by far the most complete of the early hominids; most of her skull and teeth as well as extremely rare bones of her pelvis, hands, ...