Sabre-toothed tigers were among the most dangerous predators early humans ever faced. Their long canine teeth and powerful bodies were designed for killing large prey with precision and speed. This ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Long before modern North America existed, a massive and powerful bear dominated the land. Early humans were forced to compete ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

Archaeologists have spent years wondering why the earliest human homes tend to be found in rough terrain, mountain valleys, ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change drove early human innovation. Instead, researchers find that cultural developments arose under different environmental conditions, shaped by ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.