Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

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

Millions of years ago, early humans lived in a world where survival was anything but guaranteed. Wild predators, unpredictable weather, and deadly diseases constantly threatened their existence. But ...

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

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the same region of Africa in the same time frame. When you purchase through ...

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

Megan Malherbe is affiliated with the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and the Human Evolution Research Institute at the University of Cape Town. Understanding what the ...

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic north Syria between about 11,600 and 7,500 years ago. Using advanced ...

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...