Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Ochre clay used in body painting gave our ancestors protection against a rise in harmful UV radiation, say scientists ...

Modeling Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field from 41,000 years ago suggests how Homo sapiens' sun-fighting strategy helped ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

It may be a politically incorrect to say it, but desperate times require words commensurate with the existential threat of ...

Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.