Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ran Barkai holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Over ...

In a remote region of Brazil, archaeologists have unearthed rock art dating back approximately 9,000 years, which intriguingly depicts scenes that seem to reference dinosaurs. Found alongside ancient ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosquitoes have existed far longer than humans, but evolved to feed off of their blood. - Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images ...

Early humans began using fire to smoke and preserve meat as far back as one million years ago—not primarily for cooking, but to prevent massive elephant and hippo carcasses from rotting and to guard ...

Within a cave in the Pyrenees Mountains, researchers have uncovered evidence that prehistoric humans may have used the site for copper mining; however, further digging has revealed that it may also ...

The evidence shows that early hominins returned to the same area again and again between 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago. (CREDIT: Wix) Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing ...