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 ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...

Roughly 476,000 years ago, early human ancestors were already building wooden structures, far earlier than scientists thought ...

A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Under what Gov. Walz described as an effort to “shore up” leadership, Shireen Gandhi is no longer Commissioner of the ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...