Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the earliest known Homo sapiens.

Early humans made tools out of bone 1.5 million years ago : Short Wave Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens.

While humans had long survived in savanna and forests, they shifted into everything from from dense rainforests to arid deserts in the period leading up to 50,000 years ago, developing what Hallett ...

For decades, scientists believed that early humans avoided rainforests, considering them too challenging for survival. Thick vegetation, limited food sources, and dense canopies were seen as ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

If that were true, then early humans should have also been present in West and Central Africa, where rainforests were common. The oldest firm evidence of humans in African rainforests dated back ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. That allowed for global migration, new research finds. Early humans adapted to ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. Skip to content Skip to site index Science ...

Our species first evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago. While prior fossil finds show some groups made early forays outside the continent, lasting human settlements in other parts of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before global migration, study says Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to ...