The find, which is several times older than the Egyptian pyramids, could rewrite the story of America's first human inhabitants.
The find suggests that early humans knew how to use fire hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists have used an artificial intelligence to analyze evidence that early humans were making fire 1 million years ago.
Our tendency to not get enough sleep at night is seemingly not an exclusively modern phenomenon.
New evidence suggests that Australia was once home to huge reptiles that lived alongside early humans.
Scientists have determined that early humans had very different hearing abilities than we do today.
Our distant ancestors came in a variety of different shapes and sizes, just like modern humans do today.
The early domestication of wolves by modern humans may have tipped the balance in our favor.
Gibbons may communicate in a way that is similar to how early humans spoke millions of years ago.
Early humans may have relied on domesticated dogs to help them hunt down and kill woolly mammoths.
A skull dating back 1.8 million years has offered new insights in to the story of human evolution.