But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

New research has revealed that the early humans quarried metamorphic rock as far back as 220,000 years ago. A revolutionary ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

There is an old adage that goes, "you are what you eat," meaning that the food you consume helps build your body and fuel ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

Dating rewrites history: Calcite crystals in animal bones revealed Lingjing tools were made 146,000 years ago during a glacial period, not a warm climate phase. Creativity in hardship: Homo juluensis ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — A new study by the University of Arizona shows human life in North America may have developed much earlier than we thought. Researchers first found a set of human footprints at ...