For millennia, humans have told stories about stealing fire from the gods. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gifts ...

A cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island held fossil bones sealed between two volcanic ash layers, one from an eruption 1.55 million years ago and another from a massive eruption ...

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 Zealand cave has revealed million-year-old fossils, including 12 ancient bird species and four frog species. Experts believe the discovery shows how drastically New Zealand's forest culture has ...

A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancestor of the kākāpō. The discovery reveals that volcanoes and ...

Scientists have discovered charred animal remains in South Africa that are up to 1.8 million years old, potentially pushing back the timeline of human fire use by hundreds of thousands of years, per a ...

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, ...

A spectacular trove of fossils discovered in a cave on New Zealand's North Island has given scientists their first glimpse of ancient forest species that lived there more than a million years ago. The ...