Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Early humans have achieved some amazing feats, crossing dangerous terrains and surviving unimaginable challenges. Scientists want to learn more about their lives and how they’ve adapted throughout.

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 ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of 115,000-year-old human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically at Alathar Lake. This finding challenges previous assumptions that early ...