Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...
A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.
Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.
Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...
When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...
When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...
Archaeologists and law enforcement officials are seeking the person who stole human remains from an ancient burial site in ...
New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...
Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...
Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...