Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years

Scientists have come up with a technology to recycle used clothes by separating out the different fibres in the clothes rather than simply burning them

New research may explains how Homo erectus managed to cross the African and Middle East desert 2.1 million years ago: there was no desert because climate created a green corridor that our early ancestors probably took advantage

Scientists have put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in the DNA of modern humans when they had children with them about 50,000 years ago