Our ancestors were traveling up to 13 kilometers at least 2.6 million years ago What is clear is that “Nyayanga represents the oldest documented case of long-distance transportation of raw materials,” ...

Explore how bipedalism and naked skin aided early hominids in adapting to African savanna heat stress, leading to significant evolutionary traits. Early hominids may have stood up and gotten naked as ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Our earliest ancestors probably behaved in a much more "human" way than most scientists have previously thought, according to a recent study that looked at early hominid fossils from ...

One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating techniques ...

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

June 4 (UPI) --To tell the full story of human evolution, researchers need to know what our earliest relatives looked like. Unfortunately, soft tissue reconstruction is quite difficult. In a new study ...

Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This groundbreaking research has the potential to reshape our understanding of early ...

This release is available in Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese and Amharic. In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ...

Shizuka, a seven-year-old female Sumatran orangutan, seen in a cage before being transferred to Indonesia at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. CREDIT: SOPA Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ...

Discoveries in East Africa of what may be the oldest expertly sharpened stone implements suggest that early members of the human genus, Homo, invented these tools by around 2.6 million years ago, ...

Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had ...

Chimpanzees inhabiting a harsh savanna environment and using bark and stick tools to exploit an underground food resource are giving scientists new insights to the behaviors of the earliest hominids ...