A beach walk in Norfolk led to the discovery of a 780,000-year-old hand axe, rewriting early human history and settlement ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

The Outdoor Heritage Museum in Oquossoc Village, operated by Historic Rangeley, features exhibits exploring human life, culture and survival in the Rangeley region from the end of the last ice age to ...

A routine dog walk on Norfolk's Happisburgh beach in 2000 unearthed a remarkable handaxe, pushing back the timeline of early ...

Researchers believe they’ve found the earliest known use of hand-held wooden tools in human history. The team points to artifacts from Greece of crafted pieces of alder and either willow or poplar, ...

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