Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Researchers analyze nine prehistoric sites with evidence of fire use and determine why exactly early humans built fire.

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...

Researchers found no major technological innovations or immune advantages at that time. Instead, success came from ecological ...

A Nature study shows Arabia was periodically lush over 8 million years, creating migration corridors for early humans and ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that ...

Davenport police tell KWQC a call came in at 2:05 a.m. Monday for a personal injury accident in front of Modern Woodmen Park ...