Scientists have discovered 430,000-year-old wooden tools in Greece, uncovering evidence of early human craftsmanship and ...

Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago.

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they ...

Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to ...

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has told employees they can no longer use Claude, a generative artificial intelligence tool from Anthropic, as President Donald Trump seeks to ...

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty A new study suggests Neanderthal males mated with human females more often than the reverse ...

Around 2% of modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA, meaning we know early humans got super intimate with our now-extinct relatives. According to new research, when Neanderthals and humans did hit it off ...

When Neanderthals and ancient modern humans interbred, the pairings were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans. This finding helps explain why Neanderthal ancestry present in most humans ...