Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

Archaeologists in Ukraine uncovered 400,000-year-old ivory tools, the oldest ever found. Long before Homo sapiens existed, ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift "toothpicks." ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A research team reconstructed the genome of an extinct horse species through an open-air extraction at the archaeological ...