We all have an idea of the caveman art seen placed onto walls by beings long, long ago, but discoveries in three Spanish ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Scientists at Georgia State University have used CRISPR gene editing to restore an ancient enzyme humans lost millions of years ago potentially reversing the buildup of uric acid that causes gout.

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

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, ...

Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives—or even your ...