Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient humans didn't spend as much time on survival activities as we might think. But the reality is that jobs as we know ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Uncover 25 shocking new discoveries about our ancient human relatives. From Dragon Man to new Homo sapiens origins, rethink ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

We know who left behind prehistoric cave paintings. We have enough evidence from the various materials left behind, along with plenty of skeletal remains, to piece together a reasonably accurate image ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosquitoes have existed far longer than humans, but evolved to feed off of their blood. - Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Researchers say that human speech was born when our ancient ancestors started gossiping and trading stories around the ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to ...