Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...

Longer thumbs mean bigger brains, scientists have found—revealing how human hands and minds evolved together. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Researchers studied 94 ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...