In a major archaeological discovery, researchers have found the world's oldest bone tools in Tanzania, providing new insights into the intelligence of human ancestors ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

The paper, published in Nature, describes a collection of 27 now-fossilised bones that had been shaped into hand tools 1.5 million years ago by human ancestors. It's the earliest substantial ...

"The human hand isn't completely rigid or purely soft—it's a hybrid system, with bones, soft joints, and tissue working together. That's what we want our prosthetic hand to achieve. This is new ...

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...