The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...