Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

Intensive food production systems have used too much land, too much water, too much fertilizer and too much soil carbon, he ...

Heat waves, extreme drought and deadly wildfire smoke are just some of the climate-related health hazards that have reached ...

Teeth are extreme: they evolved at roughly the same time as bones, and they’re the hardest thing in the human body. So why ...

First opened in 1971, the UAE’s oldest museum has reopened this month after a major restoration that added new exhibition ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, according to a new study.

In the Egyptian Western Desert, where red sandstones and green shales rise above the arid plains of Kharga Oasis, ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.