Before weapons, cities, or organized defense, early humans lived in a world where predators dominated the landscape. Large cats, pack hunters, and other deadly animals posed a constant threat to ...

early 70,000 years ago, modern humans created stunning rock art in an unexpected place: the tropical Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The finding, announced in January, made headlines for being the ...

Scientists used to believe early humans largely stayed away from Africa's dense tropical rainforests. However, a new discovery in present-day Côte d'Ivoire suggests that Homo sapiens were living in ...

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the University of Oulu, Finland, offer a detailed view of how early humans lived, ...

An artist's depiction of what life might have been like for early humans living on South Africa's Paleo-Agulhas Plain. Credit: Maggie Newman/African Centre for Coastal Paleosciences An artist's ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...

(CNN) — Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Paleo. Carnivore. Caveman. Whatever term you prefer to ...