A fascinating fossil discovery in Kenya is changing how scientists see Paranthropus boisei, an ancient human relative that ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery at Kalambo Falls in Zambia, unearthing what is now considered the world’s ...

Published in the Journal of Human Evolution, the research reexamines scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory, ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study, published today in Science Advances, reveals something far more ...