Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Midsummer Traditions Thrived Centuries Before Stonehenge Was Built. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app.

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, ...

The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild. By Carl Zimmer In ancient Siberian graves, scientists have ...