Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research offers insight into the evolutionary history of amylase genes, which help us eat starchy food. Long before humans ate ...

The work of archeologists involves a daunting task: to determine the places and ways in which our ancient human ancestors lived based on an extremely limited amount of information. While historians ...

Scientists say they may have found the oldest-ever human footprints, estimated to be 115,000 years old which could change our historical understanding of human migration. The seven fossils located on ...

Learn more about the handful of tooth fossils that complicate the history of humans in northeastern Ethiopia. Nestled between the Ledi and Geraru rivers in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, the Ledi-Geraru ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

CAST YOUR mind back to this morning. The first thing you probably did after you woke up was reach for your smartphone and hold it up in front of your bleary eyes to unlock it. Out of bed, you looked ...

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one of ...

Scientists say they may have found the oldest-ever human footprints, estimated to be 115,000 years old which could change our historical understanding of human migration. The seven fossils located on ...