Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

Scientists are sure that the tiny ancient humans went extinct 50,000 years ago. However, one of them believes that there is a ...

For much of the last century, the story of early technology seemed straightforward. The genus Homo made stone tools, and ...

The recent discovery of a 2.8 million year-old fossilized jawbone in Ethiopia is helping scientists clear up a clouded period in the evolution of modern humans. The African continent is rich with ...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History sits in one of the most culturally rich neighborhoods in Ohio. You’ve got the ...

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the development of humans species and the evolution of human's ancestors. It begins with the time of the origin of life and presents a ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...