The actors George Clooney and Adam Sandler share their personal favourites with Radio 1's Ali Plumb and talk about which ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some ...

Fossils and genetic evidence reveal that human evolution was not a simple replacement of one species by another. Studies of ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the earliest known evidence of humans making fire, dating to about 400,000 years ago.

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 have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 years ago.

Researchers say they found 400,000-year-old evidence of a hearth and tools at what used to be pond site where Neanderthals lived or camped in England.

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

The first analysis of a well-preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record has revealed that the hefty Neanderthal nose wasn’t adapted to cold climates in the way many people thought it was.

A controversial new study published on November 14, 2025, challenges the long-held belief that Neanderthals disappeared due to outright extinction around 40,000 years ago. Instead, it proposes that ...