Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte ...

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

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

Monte Verde, long treated as one of the earliest human camps in South America, is suddenly at the center of a sharp scientific split over the timeline. A new study in Science argues that the famed ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

A new study in Science challenges the Monte Verde timeline, reshaping when humans first reached South America.

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

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 ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...