Nearly 780,000-year-old charcoal fragments found at the Gesher Bnot Ya'akov archaeological site in northern Israel show that early humans had a higher level of intelligence than previously thought, ...

A giant elephant molar from the Daughters of Jacob Bridge site in northern Israel has handed archaeologists a chemical record of the wetland that sat beside early humans roughly 700,000 years ago. The ...

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 ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

A rainforest discovery reveals early humans in rainforest environments lived 150,000 years ago, reshaping theories about ancient rainforest humans and human evolution. Elif Ilkel/Pexels ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists found that ancient malaria likely shaped migration, isolation and evolution among early human populations in Africa.

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 ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria. Researchers now think that these mosquitoes — and the disease they carry — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A general view of the excavation of Gesher B Within the charcoal, archaeologists found traces of ash, willow, oak, olive, ...