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 ...

Human history is often marked by unexpected feats of exploration that challenge long-held assumptions about our ancestors. Some of those ancestors were far more adventurous than they have been given ...

A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside ...