Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Greek tradition traces its origins to Deucalion, Pyrrha, and Hellene, the patriarchs from whom all Hellenic tribes descended.

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and ...

The way Sahaleanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

Between 2021 and 2024, the Administration for Children and Families shelled out more than $91.8 billion from its Child Care ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...