Homo heidelbergensis lived hundreds of thousands of years ago during a critical phase of human evolution. Fossil evidence ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

The study authors conclude that these Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers were making their poison from the gifbol root bulb ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn't built for modern diets, which ...

The Peanut Punch has changed defensive football, and has been adopted and refined by the likes of Fred Warner.

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...