In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Imagine a world where lines drawn centuries ago still shape the fate of forests, rivers, and wild creatures today. It might ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

Angela Morton, 42, said she had been waking up multiple times a night for years until she came across the technique ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

Its massive frill was additional defense and show. Stegosaurus herds grazed during ancient times on grasslands, a standing symbol of bravery and tenacity in the face of adversity. Perhaps one of ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

The ancient tradition of women free diving for shellfish can still be seen in Japan’s unspoilt Shima Peninsula.