Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

Four sets of intersecting footprints from 1.5 million years ago indicate for the first time that a big-toothed branch of ...

13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a ... More Evidence That Europe's ...

New discoveries reveal that giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with early humans in the Americas for millennia.

Ever wondered why our ancient ancestors had those pearly whites? Turns out, early humans enjoyed a diet that was tough and chewy, like nuts, roots, and raw meats, which helped keep their chompers in ...

Gifting began in Africa, when the first humans like us emerged. It then evolved as people migrated and was adapted to fit different cultures. Early examples involved the transfer of cattle or ...

These findings hint at a remarkably different life for these early Americans, one in which they may have spent millennia sharing prehistoric savannas and wetlands with enormous beasts. "There was this ...

This date happens to coincide with the end of the last Ice Age, a time when an ice-free corridor likely emerged in North America - giving rise to an idea about how early humans moved into the ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two different species ...