One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Over millions of years, humans and their ancestors evolved alongside a host of terrifying predators—some so formidable, their bones still tell tales of ancient death matches. While today we view ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Some creatures were so colossal, so bizarre, they feel like myths - but they were real. Early humans just missed them, and it's probably a good thing... A US military refueling plane crashed in Iraq, ...