Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...