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

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

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 ...

Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...