In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, a team of geoscience researchers took a closer look at the ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

A study by research teams at the National Museum of Natural Science and National Taiwan University has, for the first time, ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly ...

This video explores how ancient civilizations built things so advanced that even modern science cannot explain them. From ...

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

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Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...