Long before humans figured out how to make fire from scratch, they learned to transport burning embers from wildfires into their caves, where they kept the flame burning for as long as they could. New ...

An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have been excavating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...

Fire is not necessarily one of humanity’s greatest inventions. It was doing a perfectly good job of inventing itself every time lightning hit a dry grassland. But figuring out how to make it and use ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study found. The prints are thought to belong to the species ...

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image Credit: t.m ...