An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the ...

Miniaturized stone tools have long been recognized as hallmarks of human adaptation, but their role in South China has ...

The first set of ancient hand fossils from an ape-like cousin of humans discovered in Kenya suggest a number of species were ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language” A ...

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge provides a whole new migration ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...