Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

Weapons. Terrible and powerful creations, used by man to inflict torment and pain upon other members of our species. Over the course of human history, they have taken many forms, and, today, some of ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators.

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

Washington — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.

A new artificial intelligence analysis of ancient fossils, published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, has revealed that humans were still being hunted by leopards up to 2,000 years ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

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 ...