New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It’s one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish ...

Around 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens faced near extinction due to the Toba supervolcano eruption, which triggered a volcanic ...

First discovered in 1997, Karahan Tepe is a sprawling 12,000-year-old site where rows of stone pillars are carved with ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals ...