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

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...