A groundbreaking discovery reveals that early humans, possibly Neanderthals, were using tools to create fire more than ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

Creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns with a whole new take on Spear for Primal Season 3. But it almost didn't happen.

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species nicknamed the "hobbit," a new study finds.

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, revealing instead that they were sophisticated plant food processors who ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor, lived side by side in parts of Eurasia, and even had children ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists found that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes – which lived ...