The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...

Octopuses, with their doughnut-shaped brain and hundreds of millions of neurons, have demonstrated intelligence in many ways.

A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in human evolution. New evidence that early humans were deliberately making fire ...

By preserving a moment in time—captured in footprints rather than bones—Murcia’s fossil dunes offer a rare and direct ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk — a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago — ...