Researchers analyze nine prehistoric sites with evidence of fire use and determine why exactly early humans built fire.

But deep inside the cave, they found something completely unexpected—a human skull. Experts later named the skull Maba 1.

A recent study published in the journal L’anthropologie provides new data on one of the most fascinating mysteries of human ...

Discover the groundbreaking new research that uncovers the crucial factor that allowed humans to successfully leave Africa 50 ...

Footprints confirm early human presence in North America 23,000 years ago Radiocarbon-dated mud samples confirm findings from the previous 2021 Evidence shows humans arrived 10,000 years before the Cl ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

The Peking Man Museum, built in 1953, is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was constructed around a collection of ancient limestone caves where the first remains of Homo erectus ...

Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.

the site where the surprisingly tiny and enormously controversial extinct human relative Homo floresiensis was discovered. But to the scientists who excavate there, the site is known as something ...

Long before the days of electricity and fridge freezers, meat was preserved by smoke. A new study suggests the practice could ...