A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

Monte Verde, long treated as one of the earliest human camps in South America, is suddenly at the center of a sharp ...

Researchers have discovered 120,000-year-old human footprints in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. Preserved in an ancient ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of ...

Genetic tweaks changed how the hip bones of early humans developed, which allowed them to start walking upright on two legs, according to new research. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Two small ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

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 ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...