Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered 2.75-million-year-old stone tools that reveal an unbroken technological tradition.

Far from primitive, Neanderthals built shelters, used pigments, made jewelry, and mastered fire. Archaeological evidence ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

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In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

Minnesota Supreme Court rules USA Powerlifting violated human rights of transgender athlete The opinion determined that USA Powerlifting violated the public accommodations statute of Minnesota’s Human ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

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For over three decades, the badly crushed and distorted Yunxian 2 skull remained an enigma, its true significance hidden beneath layers of geological damage. The breakthrough came when researchers led ...