New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests.

Just as humans have historically gathered during winter, many animals do the same. Animals may not be exchanging presents or ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Researchers argue that as ancient hominins developed the ability to control fire, they would have changed ...

“It’s the first time that remote touch has been studied in humans and it changes our conception of the perceptual world (what is called the ‘receptive field’) in living beings, including humans,” ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.