It's a long-held belief that one of our earliest ancestors, Homo habilis, was the first of our genus to transition from prey to predator. Archaeological evidence suggests that they were among the ...

Archaeologists discovered stone tools in Kenya dating back 3.3 million years, older than Homo habilis or Homo erectus. These findings suggest Australopithecus or another early ancestor was the first ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

It’s the Kingdom of the calcite skull. A horned hominid skull might sound like something out of Greek mythology, but it actually could be a separate species of human ancestor that lived alongside ...

Daily Mail has asked some of the leading evolution experts why, if humans evolved out of primates, do monkeys and apes still ...

The Petralona skull was found fused to a cave wall in Greece. © Macedonian Heritage, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia ...

William Raphael's paintings of Quebec in the 1800s are in the collections of major museums across Canada, but his work has largely faded from public memory. Now, one of his descendants is trying to ...

Four thousand miles and a family story going back nearly 400 years had brought Bill and wife Landi from Florida to this quiet spot in Shrewsbury, the last resting place of his nine-times grandmother ...

An international research team coordinated by Ca' Foscari University of Venice has identified the presence of indigotin—a blue dye compound—on stone pebbles dating back to the Upper Paleolithic. This ...

Real tennis was played indoors, usually in a court with high windows, a sloping roof and a spectators’ gallery. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 1570, a Frenchman was arrested for smuggling ...

The morphological and behavioural origins of modern humans / Chris Stringer -- Archaeology and the origins of modern humans: European and African perspectives / Paul Mellars -- The case for ...