A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The ...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear.

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.