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

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

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

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

The Apennine brown bear is a small population found only in central Italy, with a long history of closeness to human ...

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

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

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