The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered 2.75-million-year-old stone tools that reveal an unbroken technological tradition.

The name “Flint Hills” comes from the abundant chert (or flint) that eroded from the bedrock and made the land difficult to plow—a fortunate circumstance that saved this region from being converted to ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...