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

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

We've all believed things about Cro-Magnons, early European humans, that aren't true. For decades, ideas about how they lived, thought, and interacted have been full of mistakes. History and pop ...

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

Early Europe sounds quiet until you realize how many footsteps once crossed its frozen plains. New DNA findings show that modern humans reached the continent nearly 45,000 years ago, long before the ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkiye and Europe, new landmark research of this largely unexplored region reveals. The ...

Research reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought. Research led by Ohio University Associate ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...