How did early human ancestors obtain their food? It may sound like a trivial question, but it has significant implications ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

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 ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

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 ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...