Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Research in Honduras shows that humans began selecting for larger fruits with thicker rinds as early as 7,500 years ago—long ...

This week, we reported on the difficulty humans experience trying to read their dogs' emotions. Researchers reported that ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective pressure that led them to start knapping their own stone tools.

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a ...

Austrian researchers reveal why snow monkeys don't suffer maternal deaths during childbirth, offering insights into safer ...

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 years ...