Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

In Eastern Europe, archaeologists uncovered circular accumulations of mammoth bones dating back 44,000 years. Found at the site of Molodova I in Ukraine, these structures were created by Neanderthals ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

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 ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The earliest known evidence of human fire-making has been discovered in the UK dating back over 400,000, in a new groundbreaking discovery.

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The find, at a disused clay pit in Suffolk, suggests humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously known. | ITV News Anglia ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

The material, found at at disused clay pit in Suffolk, was described by experts as the most exciting find of their careers.