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

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 ...

Brazilian research team investigates protective factors in extraordinary people who survived COVID-19 without vaccines and remained independent past age 110 The Brazilian supercentenarians had no ...

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

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

A modern analysis of 7-million-year-old remains suggest this mysterious ancient primate is the oldest human ancestor ever found.

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...