A MAJOR mystery surrounding tiny ancient human cousins nicknamed “Hobbits” has finally been solved. Scientists say they’ve cracked a main puzzle about how the 3-foot-tall species ...

Two million years ago, another kind of human took its first steps into a dangerous world. Homo erectus stood tall, hunted, ...

Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say ...

It's a long-held belief that one of our earliest ancestors, Homo habilis, was the first of our genus to transition from prey to predator. Archaeological evidence suggests that they were among the ...