But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.