Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known bone tools, pushing back evidence of their use by around a million years. The find suggests early humans had more advanced tool-making skills than ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already using these massive sea creatures for survival. A new study has shown that as ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ever to exist on Earth. Elephants weighed around ten thousand kilograms ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered in excavations ...

Two research teams from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands have jointly reported the discovery of Neandertal ...

Twenty-seven standardised bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l’Université de ...

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Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines. Reading time 2 minutes Perhaps the greatest challenge to studying ...