IFLScience on MSN

2-million-year-old Homo habilis skeleton proves the first humans didn’t look like us

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...
Hosted on MSN

Some of the First Humans Used Tools Continuously

A newly uncovered trove of ancient stone tools in northwest Kenya suggests early humans didn't use them sporadically but routinely over hundreds of thousands of years, at the very emergence of ...
Live Science

What was the first human species?

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Medical Xpress

First human bird-flu death from H5N5L: What you need to know

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and ...
The Conversation

When did people first arrive in Australasia? New archaeogenetics study dates it to 60,000 years ago

Martin B. Richards received funding from the European Research Council's ACROSS (Australian Colonisation Research: Origins of Seafaring to Sahul) grant to Professor Helen Farr under the European Union ...