How did early human ancestors obtain their food? It may sound like a trivial question, but it has significant implications ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

When imagining our early human ancestors in prehistoric Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, one might envision ...

Over millions of years, humans and their ancestors evolved alongside a host of terrifying predators—some so formidable, their bones still tell tales of ancient death matches. While today we view ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...