Researchers found evidence that suggests Neanderthals could make fire 400,000 years ago at an archaeological site near Suffolk in the United Kingdom. (Jordan Mansfield / Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

Geneticists have uncovered a faint but persistent signal in modern DNA that points to a vanished branch of humanity, a “ghost ...

Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests prehistoric humans showed complex planning and understanding of how to enhan ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history of nudity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...