Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New laboratory work on ancient hunting tools points to decisions made far ...
(CNN) — Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their ...
Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...
The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, ...
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 ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A group of San Diego State University students are embarking on a week-long research expedition to the Channel Islands off the Santa Barbara coast, with the ambitious goal of ...
It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
A famous archaeological site in southern Chile may not be as old as scientists thought. A study published in Science reexamines decades-old assumptions about Monte Verde, a site that helped overturn ...