W hile early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

Around 6 million years ago, a massive supernova may have sent a wave of cosmic radiation crashing into Earth. At first glance, this distant event in the cosmos might seem irrelevant to life on our ...

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan as belonging to the Denisovans, an elusive group of early ...

The Laetoli footprints are rare treasures in the record of human ancestry ... can be considered a fossil.) 3.6 million years ago, a volcano now called Sadiman puffed out a cloud of ash that ...

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

A newly discovered fossil from a human ancestor ... to have migrated from Africa into Asia and Europe around two million years ago. However, there are some noticeable anatomical differences.

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said. Ancient humans ...

Evidence of one of the smallest — and perhaps unluckiest — early human relatives has been found in South ... That tag doesn't fit a species that was able to thrive for a million years. “Just because ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago. At the time the tools were made, three different species of human ancestors lived ...

Of all the glacial periods Britain went through in the last million years, the one around 450,000 years ago - known as the Anglian glaciation - was the most extreme. Human survival in Britain became ...