Archaeologists in 2023 announced the discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. The discovery ...

Our earliest ancestors probably behaved in a much more "human" way than most scientists have previously thought, according to a recent study that looked at early hominid fossils from Ethiopia.

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.

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

— -- You are what you eat.A corollary of that adage — hominids of 3 million years ago were what they ate — has providedpaleontologists insight into the diet of our early relatives ...

Our earliest ancestors probably behaved in a much more "human" way than most scientists have previously thought, according to a recent study that looked at early hominid fossils from Ethiopia ...

Early hominids monkeyed a bit with their diets“Lots of us have been doing work on paleo diets, but it’s always a snapshot,” he said. “The problem is, of course, that individuals are ...

Although the earliest hominids were capable of upright walking, they probably didn’t get around exactly as we do today.

A new study of chimpanzees suggests that early hominids evolved upright, two-legged walking to carry valuable resources away from competitors ...

An analysis of a 6-million-year-old bone indicates that a humanlike grasp evolved among some of the earliest hominids.