Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Riverside County firefighter checks for hot spots in the Clay fire in Jurupa Valley on Tuesday night. (Gina Ferazzi / Los ...

Until now, the oldest known evidence of fire-making was from 50,000 years ago, found in northern France. The evidence, probably produced by some of the oldest Neanderthal groups, consists of a patch ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...