Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

NICK ASHTON: We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. ROTT: Which would make the site ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and how they might have traded them around the world. From Pomeranians to poodles, Saint ...

BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez and their colleagues think that scavenging for ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Meal plan based on the eating habits of early humans, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage your ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Megan Malherbe is affiliated with the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and the Human Evolution Research Institute at the University of Cape Town. Understanding what the ...