The first confirmed fossil hands of Paranthropus boisei show that this ancient relative was capable of making tools, but was ...

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 ...

Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools.

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...