Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

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Early humans have achieved some amazing feats, crossing dangerous terrains and surviving unimaginable challenges. Scientists ...

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This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that appear to be different from any previously known species.