Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...

Fire sits at the center of how people think about being human, yet its beginnings stay oddly vague. Most readers carry a hazy ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it's far older than scholars previously believed. The study, which was published in the ...