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

It’s unclear how a new date for the site might affect the human story. Since Monte Verde, researchers have uncovered sites in ...

Monte Verde, long treated as one of the earliest human camps in South America, is suddenly at the center of a sharp ...

Researchers have discovered 120,000-year-old human footprints in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. Preserved in an ancient ...

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

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

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 ...

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...