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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

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

What did people use instead of toilet paper? Seashells, tapestries, wooden sticks and more. Donald Trump cuts off trade talks ...

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

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

Ancient Humans Nearly Went Extinct With Only 1,280 People Left, Study Finds Almost 99 per cent of our human ancestors were lost 900,000 years ago, according to a study.