For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

The series, presented by paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, will explore the story of human evolution over the past 300,000 years. The series explores how human beings went from being one of many ...

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

The findings suggest Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over 1 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed.

Homo sapiens may have split off from ancestor species in Asia around a million years ago, rather than in Africa 600,000 years ...

SHOHAM, Israel (AP) - Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...