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 ...

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

Knowledge about the first settlements of Homo sapiens in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic has been significantly advanced with the publication in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

Over 300 human skeletons were uncovered beneath a former Gloucester department store, revealing centuries of hidden urban history. Researchers also stress that the site is exceptional for its ...

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 ...

In terms of the hominoid mutation hypothesis, the split could have been associated with cosmic radiation. One hominoid species about 7 million years old is Sahelanthropus (discovered by Michel Brunet ...

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 ...