For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

A crocodile the size of a small bus once ruled the rivers and lakes of ancient Kenya. Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, the biggest ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators. If H. habilis really had begun the shift ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...