Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

A new study revealed that our ancestor Homo erectus survived extreme desert conditions over a million years ago, challenging ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa ...

Understanding how life began and evolved on Earth is a question that has fascinated humans for a long time ... Around 375 million years ago, our fish-like ancestors breathed through gills.

Human intelligence was born in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, as our ape ancestors evolved increasingly ... How unlikely was the moment when life first began on Earth?

The blades are believed to be some of the first tools ever used on Earth — and even after more than 3 million ... the most ...