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

From domestication to art, here’s a look at 14 fascinating things humans were up to 10,000 years ago. The domestication of ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched as it may seem.

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

These symptoms make it all the more incredible that in 1999, radiologist Anna Bågenholm made a full recovery after her body temperature dropped to 56.7 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s the lowest body ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.