At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

These weren’t just sharpened rocks. Stone Age weapons were engineered for one thing—damage. From flint daggers to barbed points, early humans built for survival and war ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, offering a ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...

That resourceful "trash panda" digging through your garbage may be more than just a nuisance -- it could be a living example of evolution in progress. A new study suggests that raccoons living near ...