The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo ...

Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools.

Researchers who first examined the Taiwan fossil dubbed it Penghu 1 and classified it as an unknown Homo species. Two lines of evidence now put Penghu 1, a right lower jaw that retains four cheek ...

"It has never been clear where our own genus Homo came from - this new discovery, Australopithecus sediba could answer these questions," she says. The Sediba fossils are exceptionally well preserved, ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence suggesting that hominins ... The timing aligns with the earliest appearances of Homo erectus in Africa, but other possibilities, including Homo habilis or even an ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania ... with desert-like conditions emerging. Fossil pollen analysis revealed that drought-resistant plants like Ephedra were common ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis ... Bae credits a new way of organizing fossil evidence for the breakthrough.

The footprints were made by Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei ... suggestion,” Harcourt-Smith added. More fossil evidence could help explain the interactions of ancient hominins that ...

Ancient Homo fossil teeth reveal that hominin dental growth rates began to slow before there was a major increase in brain size compared with apes. Read the paper: Dental evidence for extended ...

“This very rare specimen confirms our hypothesis that the ancestors of Homo floresiensis ... the hominin fossil record worldwide,” he added. Putting together all the fossil evidence from ...