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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study using artificial intelligence shows Homo habilis was still preyed upon by leopards 2 million years ago. (CREDIT: Rice ...

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

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Early humans may have created fire 400,000 years ago, according to evidence unearthed at an archaeological site in England. Although there is evidence that early humans used natural fire in Africa as ...

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 ...