Were early humans hunters — or hunted?For decades, researchers believed that Homo habilis — the earliest known species in our genus — marked 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 ...

This week, scientists digging in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur that pushes back ...

Scientists have just uncovered a shocking truth: Homo habilis, once thought to be an early apex predator, was actually hunted ...

Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil examined for the study, “all of them manifest what we call ‘mosaic morphology,’ in the sense that they have both Neanderthal and ...

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...