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

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...

A 10,800-year-old burial in Patagonia sheds light on human settlement along the Atlantic coast, challenging long-held ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

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

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

And the places we have called home in more welcoming parts of the world have helped shape our species — from our genes to our ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic tweaks changed how the hip bones of early humans developed, which allowed them to start walking upright on two legs, ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...