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 ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

An ancient tree fossil which showcases "the presence of volcanic islands" has gone on display at Torquay Museum. The fossil, discovered in the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark at Saltern Cove, is ...

Homo erectus is associated with a number of firsts in its 2 million years of existence, including being the first hominin to travel out of Africa.

"There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, told Live Science. "We have the first evidence of ...

There was some real “grizzly” violence in the arena. It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some might believe — ...

About 150 million years ago powerful storm winds buffeted two young pterosaurs, snapping forelimb bones in their fragile wings and sending them hurtling to their deaths in the muddy depths of a lagoon ...

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 ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has identified three species of Jurassic orthopterans—an ...

Scientists say that a collection of small stones discovered in a rock shelter in Uzbekistan may be the world’s oldest arrowheads. Based on the artifacts’ location in the sedimentary layers, ...

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 ...