A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social behavior.

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

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

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

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

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

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