Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

An AI analysis of tooth marks in human bones has drastically re-dated the point in history when humans transitioned from ...

Learn more about the carvings of camels, gazelles, and ibexes that helped humans thrive in the Nefud Desert around 2,000 ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Our ancient past isn't always buried history. When it comes to our DNA, nearly 9% of the human genome is made up of leftover ...

Ancient humans in northern China endured dramatic climate changes, creating new tools, hunting methods, and strategies to ...

Large rock-face murals scattered across the desert in northern Saudi Arabia represent one of the most ambitious – and ...

We almost always associate the ancient human diet with one of excessive meat, with a few berries mixed in here and there. It's mostly true that early humans ate a diet of what they could safely get ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a ...

The Aegean coast of Ayvalık in Turkey is composed of numerous islands and peninsulas today, but the region looked quite ...

Evidence indicates that early humans may have harnessed fire as far back as 1.8 million years ago — likely to keep predators at bay and to smoke meat in order to preserve it. Offering a rare glimpse ...