A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early ...

Ancient DNA Brings to Life History of the Iconic Aurochs ... the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating ...

A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, lived in the same environment 1.5 million years ...

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a ...

and has advanced our understanding of early human life since its discovery over a century ago. The bones included those from ancient elephants and hippos. Credit: CSIC César Hernández Regal In ...

His research focuses on trying to uncover the mysteries of early human life-forms: Homo sapiens, yes, but also Neanderthals and other hominins. The first hominins evolved in Africa and began to ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ... our species was especially adapted to life in grasslands and open woodlands, where humans could hunt great herds of mammals.

We now need to ask how these early human niche expansions impacted the plants and animals that shared the same niche-space with humans. In other words, how far back does human alteration of ...

A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ability to systematically make tools about a million years earlier than scientists thought.

The Bété I site was destroyed between 2020 and 2021 by quarrying activities, making the collected samples crucial for understanding early human life in the rainforest. "This study was completed ...