The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

As our ancestors developed more advanced tools and cultural practices, they also developed new ways of explaining concepts to others – culminating in the emergence of complex language ...

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete Denisovan fossil to date.

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

An ancient, submerged bridge in a cave on the Spanish island of Mallorca is helping researchers determine when humans first settled on islands across the western Mediterranean Sea thousands of ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.