Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

In a remarkable turn of events, scientists have stumbled upon non-human DNA from ancient fossils, shaking the very foundations of our understanding of human evolution and our ancestral lineage.

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.