Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

The axes were dated to the Pleistocene, likely made by Homo erectus, the first human species to evolve to have a humanlike ...

Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...

Early humans named Homo erectus reached East Asia 600,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping the timeline of hominin ...

Forget the long-standing stereotype of Neanderthals as lone wanderers or Early Humans as hostile outsiders. A groundbreaking new study has revealed a surprising chapter in human history, suggesting ...

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Imagine a world where colossal creatures roamed the land, coexisting with early humans. This was the reality in the Americas, where giant sloths and mastodons thrived alongside our ancestors for ...