In the flicker of those ancient fires — built not for feasting, but for vigilance and smoking meat — Homo erectus paved the ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

The Bible tells the story of Adam and Eve who were the first humans created by God and now scientists believe they have ...

The Bible has always proclaimed that Adam and Eve were the first couple and all of humanity has descended from them. Science ...

The Bible says that Adam and Eve were the first two humans and were made by God. The Old Testament says they lived in the ...

Scientists have identified the sex of a 2-million-year-old hominin for the first time using enamel protein analysis.

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

The shoreline is really a process at work rather than a permanent line,” writes columnist Gary Griggs. “People have been ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

A face-shaped pebble marked with a red dot that was discovered in a Spanish cave may be proof that Neanderthals engaged in ...

Scientists found the world’s oldest fingerprint—and it’s turning human history upside down.

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in ...