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 ...

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

An international study, published in the journal Scientific Reports by Nature Publishing Group, has revealed a new Neanderthal site in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Algarve coast of ...

Neanderthals were long portrayed as brutal carnivores gnawing on mammoth bones, but recent research offers a more nuanced picture of their eating habits. Drawing from new archaeological findings and ...