Spare a thought for poor Derek Mooney, who finds himself is all on his own in the studio this evening. He is feeling a bit sorry for himself, which is why he opens the programme with the mournful ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Neanderthals created fires about 415,000 years ago in eastern England, evidence uncovered by researchers suggests.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...