Stone Age humans living by a lake in what’s now Germany systematically processed animal carcasses for fatty nutrients — ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Dire wolves vanished more than 12,000 years ago but science has brought them back, and now, the massive creatures made famous ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...

Archaeologists have discovered a once-bustling city with buildings that had multiple storeys, and a temple of the cobra ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...