Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Modern testing methods now suggest the group of early humans roamed the earth between 3.4 and 3.7 million years ago. This new timeline could reshape common understandings of human evolution.

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

The timeline of when people arrived has shifted ... Ice Age — much earlier than most experts thought possible if the first humans arrived via the Bering land bridge and inland corridor.

had projected that the first uncrewed spacecraft would land on Mars within five years and that humans would arrive within ...