Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake ...

If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the fossil represents the earliest known instance of an injury caused by something sharp. The findings highlight the nuanced ways in which early humans kept ...

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 ...

A giant elephant molar from the Daughters of Jacob Bridge site in northern Israel has handed archaeologists a chemical record of the wetland that sat beside early humans roughly 700,000 years ago. The ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of scavenging animal species living nearby. While smaller scavenging animals such ...

An experimental injection called CBL-514 reduced both fat beneath the skin and the deeper belly fat liposuction leaves behind ...