Fact of the Day is a simple yet fascinating way to learn something new daily. In this world, there is an endless amount of ...

A 10-minute journey through Earth's human evolution gives you a quick tour of how we, as humans, came to be. It all started ...

Stone tools found at Lomekwi in Kenya date to 3.3 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens or even Homo habilis existed.

Leading Spanish indie distributor A Contracorriente Films has acquired “Homo Sapiens?” (“Homo Argentum”), the black-comedy anthology from Argentina’s Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn (“Official ...

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

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 uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) Almost 2 million years ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...

A human skull discovered in China, believed to be about a million years old, suggests that Homo sapiens may have emerged at least 500,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers also ...

The finding, published in Science, indicated that the evolutionary split between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans may have occurred much earlier than previously thought. “This changes a lot ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? If H. habilis really had begun the shift towards eating meat, they argue, the only ...