In this video, we take you on a journey to the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when Earth looked vastly different from today.

In 1849 archaeologists found 14 clay tablets with cuneiform writing during excavations in Iraq, the translation of these ...

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model. In the last century, eugenics was enthusiastically embraced among Anglo-Saxon elites, then by ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...