An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

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 ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Human birth has a reputation for danger. The usual explanation is simple enough: walking upright narrowed the pelvis, while ...

Horses were being ridden, worked, and traded long before anyone thought it possible. New research pushes back the accepted ...

While human-to-human transmission of the Andes hantavirus is uncommon, it is still possible, according to the World Health ...

Archaeologists analyzed a Neanderthal molar that seems like it was intentionally drilled, but some experts are skeptical ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...