A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered human remains and structural artifacts indicating a 3,000-year-old ritualistic cult ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion ...

Protein evidence reveals hidden variation in P. robustus. The species may be more complex than once believed. For close to a ...

Scientists uncovered water sealed beneath Canada’s crust for over two billion years. Salty, bitter and microbe-tinged, the ancient find could hold secrets about Earth’s past and life beyond.

A study by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Weizmann Institute of Science found that a climatic crisis led the kings ...

Researchers have unveiled an ancient Egyptian handprint that was left on a soul house tomb offering 4,000 years ago.

The spectrum of smells in ancient societies, and their possible cultural meanings, are being explored by scientists who study odor molecules, old documents and other archaeological finds. Here, a ...

I t might seem hard to believe, but the ancestors of today’s whales were once land-dwelling animals. Given that they’re now ...

Yara Souza of Orlando, Florida, discovered the ninth-century golden artifact during an excavation in Redesdale, ...