Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study using artificial intelligence shows Homo habilis was still preyed upon by leopards 2 million years ago. (CREDIT: Rice ...

Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

Turns out, early humans preferred smoked meat to cooked meat. Or they might have, according to a new theory from researchers at Tel Aviv University. Published in a paper in Frontiers in Nutrition, the ...

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancient toolmakers were ...

An overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: ...

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 ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

For decades, Homo habilis, one of our early ancestors, walked with the confidence of a creature that felt like it was hot s**t. With stone tools in hand, this early hominin was believed to be the ...

By tracing how early ancestors engaged with simple stone flakes to food-system disruptions, researchers can begin to gain insight into how modern humans may respond to changes in climate stressors.