He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of ...

An ancient skull found in China has pushed back the timeline of human evolution by 400,000 years, revealing a new branch in our lineage.

In a series of recent archaeological expeditions, tools dating back millions of years have been unearthed, offering a new ...

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

Researchers have recently uncovered a series of artifacts that suggest the existence of pre-human engineers, challenging our understanding of early human evolution. These findings, dispersed globally, ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a deep body of water.

Rodrigo, working in partnership with the Archaeological and Paleontological Museum of Madrid through the Institute of Evolution in Africa (IDEA), is among the first to apply artificial intelligence to ...

Learn more about Homo habilis, and how AI may have proved that this early human was likely leopard prey.

Were early humans hunters — or hunted?For decades, researchers believed that Homo habilis — the earliest known species in our genus — marked the ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues ...