Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...

A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

A new study in Science challenges the Monte Verde timeline, reshaping when humans first reached South America.

New study upends theory about how humans got to the Americas - For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human ...

New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our ...

Dogs and cats metabolize food very differently from humans. What may be harmless on your plate can overwhelm their organs, ...

For tens of thousands of years, humans painted animals, symbols, and bodies — but almost never faces. Then archaeologists found a tiny ivory carving in France that may be the oldest human face ever ...

We can learn a great deal about the lives and social structures of civilizations thousands of years ago by studying what they ...