Scientists have reconstructed the face of an ancient ape species called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, part of human and great ...

Even our early human ancestors couldn’t resist the crystal-blue waters of the Great Lakes. A new study found that the Great ...

Early human ancestors found psilocybin mushrooms by following herds of hoofed animals, as mushrooms thrive in the dung of ...

The knee has undergone major changes to its size and shape, not only to allow early humans to walk upright, but also to ...

Discover how we inherit genetic memories from our ancestors through DNA passed on to future generations, as seen in trauma ...

Half a million years ago or more, early human ancestors hunted horses with wooden spears, the very first weapons, and used ...

Horses were the primary means of locomotion for travel, communication, agriculture, and warfare across much of the ancient ...

Fire and fermentation are both ways people have learned to make food better, but it was probably easier for our ancestors to stumble upon fermentation by accident. Fire doesn’t just happen every day, ...

Someone asked “What is a food that makes you think, “How did humans discover this was edible?”” and people share their ...

The Moundville complex sits along the Black Warrior River in west-central Alabama and was a Mississippian settlement ...

As they spread, horses reshaped ecology, social structures and economies at a never-before-seen scale. Across human history, ...

Half a million years ago or more, early human ancestors hunted horses with wooden spears, the very first weapons, and used their bones for early tools. During the late Paleolithic era, as far back as ...