A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using ...

Scientists have put a face, but not an official name, to the earliest human ancestor ever found in Western Europe. This recently discovered hominin is a "new actor in the story of human evolution," ...