Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...