Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or ...

Scientists have determined the reddish-brown rock art found in a cave on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island is more than 44,000 ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

The age of the lines and how they were formed still needs to be verified, but there is a chance this may be one of the oldest symbolic stone carvings ... linking it to the presence of a human species.

It’s the first time that this sort of brain to speech configuration has been catalogued in a non-human species, Long notes. The observations offer “exciting avenues for future research ...

At the Atapuerca archaeological site in Burgos, Spain, the oldest human in Western Europe was discovered for the third time, […] ...

involving different groups that developed separately for over a million years and then came back together to form the modern human species," said Richard Durbin, co-author and computational ...

then came back to form the modern human species." Based on the fossil record, we know that species like Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa (and beyond) during the period in ...

It was the first early human species to live in colder climates, and had a ­­­short, wide body adapted to conserve heat. It lived at the time of the oldest definite control of fire and use ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other species. In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history ...

and an estimated one million species facing this fate due to human activities. However, conservation measures can be successful, if there is concrete evidence about what works. The researchers ...