New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our understanding of when humans started making fire back by 350,000 ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest confirmed evidence had come from Neanderthal ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.