From the moment primitive humans picked up the first stone as a tool, humanity embarked on an evolutionary journey from ignorance to wisdom. The use of tools has extended the boundaries of human ...

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

New evidence shows ancient humans lived in Britain during the Ice Age, using tools and survival skills to adapt to extreme ...

Homo Naledi, an extinct species of small-bodied hominins, may have intentionally buried their dead over 240,000 years ago.

In addition to the ancient jawbone, scientists uncovered fossils from a sabre-toothed tiger, wolf, elephant and giraffe along with tools made of stone ...