There is an old adage that goes, "you are what you eat," meaning that the food you consume helps build your body and fuel ...

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 ...

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

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

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

From left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (Associated Press photos) WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Over millions of years, humans and their ancestors evolved alongside a host of terrifying predators—some so formidable, their bones still tell tales of ancient death matches. While today we view ...