The axes were dated to the Pleistocene, likely made by Homo erectus, the first human species to evolve to have a humanlike ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte ...

Monte Verde, long treated as one of the earliest human camps in South America, is suddenly at the center of a sharp ...

When we imagine prehistoric life, we often picture early humans living among every ancient creature that ever existed. In reality, many animals appeared long after early humans had disappeared or ...

Scientists study physical evidence such as cave art, hand-crafted tools, and skull structures to infer cognitive and speech capabilities ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of ...

A new study in Science challenges the Monte Verde timeline, reshaping when humans first reached South America.