Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

Despite the fact that we know that Neanderthals were capable of producing jewellery and using coloured pigments, there has ...

Prehistoric human babies probably looked just like their parents from the moment they were born. Not only would this have ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

New fossil finds in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei had human-like hands and feet, ending a long debate over its ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

Earth's 'Boring Billion' created the conditions for complex life to exist, report scientists at the universities of Sydney ...

Storytelling is an ancient art. I’m not talking those 60-second clips of folks telling jokes or airing gripes, political ...

Weiss’ inexperience, her embrace of the right-wing assault on the media, and her eagerness to boost her political opinions ...