Ancient grooves on human teeth, once hailed as evidence of tooth-picking, may simply be the result of natural wear, according ...

A tiny fossil, Saccorhytus coronarius, once thought to be a human ancestor from China's Cambrian era, has been reclassified.

This study is lit. Scientists have discovered charred animal remains in South Africa that are up to 1.8 million years old, ...

The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

The remains of Ötzi the Iceman, who died 5,300 years ago, contain ancient microbes that are still alive, new research finds.

A new study finds that ancient hominins nearly 800,000 years ago deliberately selected specific basalt sources for different stages of tool production rather than simply using whatever stone was ...