Researchers have unearthed the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever found, and they are an extraordinary 4,30,000 years ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans — and they’re an astonishing 430,000 ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

The Laetoli footprints are among the oldest and most important traces of early human ancestors ever discovered, preserved in volcanic ash for around 3.6 million years. These ancient tracks appear ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

A tiny pinky bone unearthed in Siberia's Denisova Cave revealed a previously unknown human species, the Denisovans. This ...

Ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 genomes suggests human evolution accelerated after farming, cities, and the Bronze Age transformed Europe.