New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

A newly discovered Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast has revealed the first fossilized footprints of these ancient humans in the region. A new international study published in Scientific ...

The only species ever to become extinct more than once, the Pyrenean ibex, native to the Pyrenees mountains, first died out ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

Tragedy struck in the heart of Rome when a worker died after a partial collapse of the medieval tower known as the Torre dei ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

A newly uncovered trove of ancient stone tools in northwest Kenya suggests early humans didn't use them sporadically but ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...