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

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An aged cat named Flossie has just reached another major life milestone. The long-lived feline turned 30 on Dec. 29, ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

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

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint ...

The New Year Honours List 2026 conferred an OBE on the oldest living victim of the Post Office scandal, as well as hailing ...

Archaeologists have found human remains and what is believed to be the world's oldest vintage in a 2,000 year-old glass ...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - 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 ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...