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 ...

Change in landscape for early hominids may have led to the development of speech, new study finds A turning point in language development occurred in the Miocene Era.

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

This year "Jaws" celebrates its 50th anniversary. Its success reflects the enduring importance of our most ancient fear: ...

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid Misconduct allegations over an earlier report on one of the bones hang over the findings ...

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.

“I believe these early hominids had higher cognitive abilities than some researchers believe, and they were able to use fire for cooking.

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.

The earliest hominids likely first began consuming psilocybin mushrooms after they descended from living in trees, between about five to six million years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch, a ...