Early humans have achieved some amazing feats, crossing dangerous terrains and surviving unimaginable challenges. Scientists ...

Early humans who made some of the oldest known stone tools might have traveled miles to secure the best materials for their construction, new research suggests. Archaeologists traced the origins of ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

This is really early in the archaeological record.

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ancestors adapt and evolve while Neanderthals went extinct.

Ancient remains from a cave in Serbia show that Neanderthals were hunting mountain goats 300,000 years ago, adding to ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The pronounced difference in body size present in both Australopithecus ...

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...