Scientists found that the Turkana people of northern Kenya evolved special genes within 5,000-8,000 years to help them ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a million years ago, leaving behind stone tools that reshape our understanding ...

Over time, the general size of animals changes. That's a normal part of evolution. Sometimes, environmental factors may cause a species to grow smaller; a century later, the animals' descendants might ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...