Archaeologists deconstructed these monumental ancient graves scattered across the desert of eastern Africa and found several ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved ...