For millennia, humans have told stories about stealing fire from the gods. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gifts fire to humanity after sneaking it away from the gods’ home on Mount Olympus.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wonderwerk Cave entrance. Burned fossil bones in Wonderwerk Cave suggest early humans used fire there between 1.07 and 1.79 ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more reactive to temperature and CO2 changes. Researchers warn this surprising ...

Joshua takes on an enormous food experiment by traveling through roughly one million years of human eating. Starting with the primitive foods available to our distant ancestors, he recreates meals ...

Archaeologists have discovered traces of fires built up to 1.8 million years ago in a cave in southern Africa. The burnt remnants of owl pellets reveal that the fires were regularly used by groups of ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that early human ancestors were using fire in South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago, extending the chronology of one of the earliest ...

Top right panel shows the model simulation of Antarctic ice sheet volume change covering the last 3 million years. Bottom right panel represents the relationship between atmospheric CO₂ concentration ...

Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that story becomes much harder to read. In South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave, ...