A new study challenges the idea that climate change drove early human innovation. Instead, researchers find that cultural ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

The latest discoveries in Central China's Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia's role in human ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

BEIJING -- After years of dedicated research, a team of Chinese scientists has unveiled critical mechanisms governing early human embryonic development, offering novel theories and potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

Long before modern North America existed, a massive and powerful bear dominated the land. Early humans were forced to compete ...