A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

The "Dragon Man" skull reveals groundbreaking insights into Denisovans' genetics, appearance, and impact on modern humans.

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

Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after ...

Scientists discovered a new human species, Homo juluensis, in the Xujiayao site in China that lived 200,000 years ago.

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

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...