The research team identified chemical residues of poison from gifbol, a poisonous plant still used by traditional hunters in ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Researchers have identified traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads - making it the oldest known arrow poison in the ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

When human error erases 5,000 years of history, we become even more aware that humankind is not perfect. The incident ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

Brazilian research team investigates protective factors in extraordinary people who survived COVID-19 without vaccines and ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.