A SUDDEN population increase in Europe some 20,000 years ago forced our ancient human ancestors to battle it out over ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...

A study suggests long scalp hair evolved as an adaptation to heat and later gained cultural significance. Researchers ...

Northumbria University’s Dr Vasile Ersek and an international team have uncovered evidence of early hominins in Europe dating back at least ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...

It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down. But thanks to the ...

New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of human evolution. Tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and ...