Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human evolution. By integrating three advanced dating techniques, researchers have ...

A set of 115,000-year-old human footprints discovered in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert offers rare insight into how early ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

The theory that East Africa is the most likely birthplace for human beings has persisted over many years. A new find, however ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...