The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk.