Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

The earliest ever human DNA from Scandinavia is set to help humans know about the elusive people who first settled in the ...

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin story of the Americas. In 2021, a first analysis of these footprints found that they were between 21,000 and 23,000 years old.

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals ...