Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in south-western France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective pressure that led them to start knapping their own stone tools.