Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

The answer has less to do with morning people’s discipline than with deep evolutionary history, and a molecular clock ticking ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

Cavemen gathered shellfish to eat using the same methods as modern humans, according to new research. Neanderthals in ...