New data shows Ice Age hunters used Mezhyrich’s mammoth-bone shelters briefly, highlighting adaptations in a volatile, frigid ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

Nagpur: Researchers from Nagpur University (NU) describe the prehistoric heritage site at Chandrapur district's Bhatala ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Oliver Stone nearly joined forces on a Planet of the Apes movie that would've taken the sci-fi ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in human evolution. New evidence that early humans were deliberately making fire ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for ...

New DNA study of 777 genomes found across southern Europe and west Asia redirects the cradle of Indo-Europeans, sheds light ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for creatures great and small.

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...