A 150,000-year-old site in Côte d'Ivoire nearly doubles previous estimates of how long ago humans first lived in rainforests.

The assumption has been comfortable and long-standing: creativity is a product of abundance. When ancient humans had enough ...

A groundbreaking new study from Cyprus reveals that pigeons were living alongside humans and moving toward domestication nearly 3,400 years ago. This discovery pushes back the earliest direct evidence ...

If you’re the sort of person that doesn’t change their sheets regularly then you are officially less hygienic than a ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans — and they’re an astonishing 430,000 ...

More than 1,500 massive underground tunnels in Brazil have puzzled researchers for years. The claw marks on the walls point ...

Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe showing a variety of large animals including elephant and rhino. Image ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words ...

When a child develops kidney failure or a rare bone disorder, the cause can seem painfully immediate. It may be a single ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

A team of researchers used a new, minimally invasive technique to sample the teeth from six Homo erectus fossils, ...

The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern ...