While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

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

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

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A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...