Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an ...

But long before the west coast of South America was ruled by the Incas, an even more enigmatic society inhabited the Andes, ...

The idea that an advanced civilization existed on Earth long before humans is fascinating, but scientists aren't convinced.

The idea that an advanced civilization existed on Earth long before humans is fascinating, but scientists aren't convinced.

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

Prologue A Greek friend from Canada, Dr. Nikos Chrystodoulou, sent me an article about an American company, Cambrian Nuclear, ...

The excavation of the ancient city of Ur revealed wealthy, powerful rulers. There’s a compelling case they were actually ...

Stone Age peoples in Britain built a wooden monument to mark the summer solstice, 500 years before they began building the stone circle at Stonehenge. Stonehenge is also aligned to the summer solstice ...

The "highly lethal" oldest strains of plague were killing people thousands of years before the Black Death, according to new research. Plague is usually associated with rats, crowded medieval cities, ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible. Researchers found that these DNA regions, which act like volume controls for genes ...