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

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 ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

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 ...

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 ...