They once roamed free - until humans changed the course of evolution forever. This is the story of the moment wild animals became workers, food sources, and ...

Bird-feeding, if done properly, can help these birds survive. Black-capped chickadees, for example, have a much higher winter ...

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 ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

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

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

Australopithecus relied primarily on plant-based diets, not meat, challenging the long-held belief that meat consumption drove human brain evolution. The wide variation in nitrogen isotope values ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

New archaeological research is turning a long-accepted idea about human evolution on its head—challenging the belief that meat was the cornerstone of early human diets and that plant foods only rose ...

A new archaeological study argues that humans have always been plant processors, not just meat hunters. From Ice Age Israel to northern Australia, early people were grinding seeds, cooking roots, and ...