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

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

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

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

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

As we wait for the Alisera to arrive, White explains that the team returns to this hostile spot year after year because it’s the only place in the world to yield fossils that span such a long stretch ...