Fruit wasn’t just a snack for early humans—it was survival. This video explains how fruit shaped diets, movement patterns, ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Chinese scientists’ recent research suggests that early humans in Central China may have begun using hafted stone tools and ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

A new archaeological discovery in China reveals advanced stone tools that challenge previous ideas about early hominin ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...