A groundbreaking discovery in southwest China has revealed wooden tools that are believed to have been crafted by Denisovans ...

The discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia has flung open the door into a new chapter of ...

Scientists have discovered what may have prompted early human ancestors to begin developing speech and language. As the landscape in which ancient hominids lived transformed from dense forests to ...

Until now, the earliest and most evocative evidence for hominid bipedality was the footprints embedded in 3.7-million-year-old volcanic ash at Laetoli in Tanzania.

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid. ... The leg bone was compared with fossils of ancient apes and other hominids and with modern apes and humans.

One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating ...

Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. Meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): an experimental approach using cut-mark data. Journal of Human Evolution 33, 669 ...

"For eons there were never more than a few hundred thousand early hominids at any one time in history," Pääbo says. "Their technologies changed quite slowly over time.

Humans’ ability to walk upright on two legs may have evolved in trees, rather than on the ground, according to scientists studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.