Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched pattern ...

A new analysis of charcoal recovered from one of the oldest known sites of controlled fire use argues that early humans chose their lakeside home roughly 800,000 years ago for a strikingly practical ...

Ancient footprints found in Kenya offer rare glimpses into early human relatives. These impressions date back approximately 1 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study using artificial intelligence shows Homo habilis was still preyed upon by leopards 2 million years ago. (CREDIT: Rice ...

If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the fossil represents the earliest known instance of an injury caused by something sharp.

Evidence from a remote site on Sulawesi reveals that ancient human relatives crossed a deep ocean barrier more than a million years ago. The discovery extends the earliest known human movements in ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

SHOHAM, Israel (AP) — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

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 ...

A study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the patchwork of different ...