New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Recent analysis of ancient antelope teeth has provided unexpected insights into the lives of early humans, challenging ...

A new study suggests that scavenging—the act of eating the meat of dead animals—may have played a much bigger role in human ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance.

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.