Other scientists have reported sites in Eurasia and northern Africa with either hominin fossils, stone tools or butchered ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Other scientists have reported sites in Eurasia and northern Africa with either hominin fossils, stone tools or butchered animal bones from around this time. Our recently published research adds ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

She'd seen them before, on bones that were butchered with stone tools about 1.8 million years ago, from a site called Dmanisi in Georgia.These were cut marks made by a human ancestor wielding a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to ...