Diedrich argued that Ice Age hyenas had powerful jaws and often gnawed on juvenile cave bear bones, puncturing them in ...

Today, as the world observes World Brain Day, the spotlight turns not just to the complex marvel inside our skulls, but to a growing concern: are we truly using it anymore? From the ancient days of ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...

Shamahi, tracing the development of Homo sapiens across 300,000 years of prehistory in the first of a five-part series, Human ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

The world's oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time. The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by ...

These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated Western Europe between 11,000 and 35,000 years ago – carry with them a leather rucksack containing objects of value: mostly flint ...

Long before modern sunscreens, Homo sapiens may have found natural ways to protect themselves from the sun’s dangerous rays.