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

Geochemist Tina Lüdecke stands next to "Little Foot", a remarkably well-preserved Australopithecus skeleton that was discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves and is considered to be the most complete ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

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HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery in understanding the prehistoric roots of one of the world's most common funeral practices - cremation. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports on how the ...

(CNN) — The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that ...