A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing trees, but whether it used them for that purpose is still unknown.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have debated the geographical origin and spread of the treponemal diseases — syphilis, bejel, yaws and pinta, all of ...

The oldest Stone Age cremation, carried out 9,500 years ago in a remote rock shelter, has been found in Africa.

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

NEW YORK -- Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back ...