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

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte ...

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

A group of early Homo sapiens crossed into Arabia more than 100,000 years ago, long before the migration that shaped modern ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...