Fossilized bones and teeth dating back approximately 773,000 years are reshaping scientists’ understanding of human evolution ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

Research led by the University of Sydney is reshaping scientific understanding of one of the world's most widespread canine ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analysed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...