The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

A human skull fragment discovered at the Sima del Elefante site at Atapuerca has become the oldest face in Western Europe.

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

“Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids ,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner told ...

Seafood was part of an early Neanderthal diet. Spanish archaeologists found stone tools that were used to crack mollusk ...

Your article on sabre teeth reminds me of a visit I made to a fossil site in South Africa. Using a hominid skull and two curved fingers, a researcher graphically illustrated how a sabre-toothed ...

The Complete World of Human Evolution covers the extent of modern knowledge about human evolution. It even explores the speciation of our close cousins such as Neanderthals and dozens of other ...

These are humanity’s first knives, says the 48-year-old CSIC researcher. Until now, the oldest known bone tools were from ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out ...