What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s ...

Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study, recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution, on the diet of individuals at the Sima de ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

An international research team led by the University of Tübingen and the University of Reading, together with the Senckenberg ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum – the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art. Scientists have identified ...