Alabama researchers will track sound changes as the 990-foot vessel transforms into an artificial reef off Florida's coast ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, attended the official ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

A collection of artefacts showing the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire nearly 350,000 years ...