Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

A look at how AJ Styles has grown over the last 27 years.

By the 1920s, “race films,” movies starring largely Black casts, marketed to Black audiences and often produced by ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

A new archaeological discovery in China reveals advanced stone tools that challenge previous ideas about early hominin ...