Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

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

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

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

Researchers found evidence that suggests Neanderthals could make fire 400,000 years ago at an archaeological site near Suffolk in the United Kingdom. (Jordan Mansfield / Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

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

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...