(ansap/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the ...

Zhao concluded that the research reveals a much richer story of innovation, intelligence and human evolution in East Asia.

A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...

A remarkable collection of ancient stone tools proves that human creativity can thrive in challenging times. The complexity ...

When imagining our early human ancestors in prehistoric Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, one might envision ...

Some researchers argue that the average human brain began shrinking 3,000 to 10,000 years ago, long before smartphones, ...

Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other ...

Far below the surface of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a flooded labyrinth of limestone tunnels has quietly guarded one of the most haunting fossil troves of the Ice Age. In the darkness of a submerged ...