Never mind the Christmastide editions of your favourite shows on TV or reruns of classic films, there's only one festive ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Two Italian grandmothers, aged 88 and 89, have gone viral on Instagram, sharing traditional baking, mischievous antics, and local culinary culture with global fans.

An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

John Lehr, who now-famously appeared in these ad spots as an offended caveman rolling his eyes at the tagline's suggestion ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

Study on skull of Altamura Man could be blow to adaptation theories about Neanderthals and their extinction One sign of a really cold day is the sharp sting of freezing air in your nose. It was ...

Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its inhabitants bringing iron pyrite to the area specifically to enable them to light ...

Baked soil, ancient tools and materials that could be used to start fires show that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago — the earliest evidence of this skill found so far.

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...

400 thousand years ago our early human cousins dropped a lighter in a field in the East of England; evidence that was uncovered this week and suggests that early neanderthals might have made fire 350 ...