New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

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

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative ...

A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

A dog trained to detect the odor of human remains reportedly indicated it found something during a search for missing woman ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

Earliest known evidence of human fire-making discovered in the UK - The material, found at at disused clay pit in Suffolk, ...

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