Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Understanding how threat hunting differs from reactive security provides a deeper understanding of the role, while hinting at how it will evolve in the future.

The Bhimbetka site, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, captures the continuous presence of human life from the Lower Palaeolithic Age, roughly 100,000 years ago, to the Medieval period.

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

A new study documents the complex interactions between cougars and gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and finds their ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

Elena Rybakina’s victory on the blue-green courts of Melbourne Park, a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 triumph over World Number One Aryna Sabalenka to claim her first Australian Open title, was, for all intents, a ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

For collectors of western Americana, there’s a treasure trove that captures the spirit of the frontier. Hand-tooled leather ...

In an astonishing parallel to how human language evolves, communities in Mozambique use different ‘dialects’ to coordinate ...