When people imagine the earliest human tools, they usually picture weapons. Stone handaxes, sharpened spears and heavy clubs ...

Red meat once supported human survival but modern eating is very different. High intake links to health risks and ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

The collection includes rare manuscripts from the 15th to 19th centuries covering religion, literature, medicine and culture ...

Antonis and Stavros Fylladitis discuss mythology, creating an original sci-fi universe, and shaking the stigma around game ...

Birds rapidly stop calling after hearing a predator, using silence to avoid detection. This response varies by location, size ...

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and ...

Smouldering secretly underground in winter, ‘holdover fires‘ trigger new spring fires. Satellite detection may be the answer ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

How did early human ancestors obtain their food? It may sound like a trivial question, but it has significant implications ...