Fruit wasn’t just a snack for early humans—it was survival. This video explains how fruit shaped diets, movement patterns, ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

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

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

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic north Syria between about 11,600 and 7,500 years ago. Using advanced ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Megan Malherbe is affiliated with the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and the Human Evolution Research Institute at the University of Cape Town. Understanding what the ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof ...