New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

New research confirms humans first reached the Sahul super-continent by two different routes around 60,000 years ago.

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

In A Nutshell Archaeologists discovered stone tools at three sites in Kenya spanning 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

When it comes to successful relationships, there’s nothing quite like the long, long marriage between bedbugs and humans, even if the affection goes in one direction. The species of bedbug that feeds ...