What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

The human race is even older than we thought, and a new discovery has changed everything we thought we knew about our species’ earliest days walking on Earth. A major discovery analysed in a new paper ...

Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.

Hidden beneath layers of sediment in a long-dried lakebed, a set of fossilized human footprints—dated to roughly 115,000 years ago—has emerged as some of the earliest physical evidence of Homo sapiens ...