A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Have you seen the news making the rounds? It seems all humans share an "ancestral mom" who lived about 200,000 years ago!

That range spans three different human ancestors: Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis ... They came from sites with tens of thousands of other tools—flakes, scrapers, and core stones used for hunting ...

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans, gorillas and chimpanzees ... not physiologically possible for ...

It was evidence that brain expansion evolved after human ancestors started walking on two legs ... This means that it was probably not physiologically possible for Australopithecus afarensis to engage ...

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9 to ... afarensis to engage in persistence hunting, unlike later species of the genus Homo species.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results of a new study published this week. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone ...

Reuters Scientists have discovered fossilised facial bones in Spain, dating back 1.1 to 1.4 million years, which may belong to an unidentified species in the human evolutionary lineage ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

WASHINGTON – A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and ...