Coulson doubts it will be primates who will inherit the Earth. ‘My money is on octopus, they’re going to be the next ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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