A small company from California has plans to harness the power of the Sun, redirecting its light much like ancient humans did ...

A team of paleontologists has meticulously documented an astonishing 16,600 individual footprints within Toro Toro, a ...

Giant anacondas grew large early and kept that size for millions of years, surviving climate shifts and habitat changes ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

Ancient civilizations left behind enigmatic sites like the Plain of Jars, Nazca Lines, Paracas Candelabra, Yonaguni Submarine ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

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From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, Earth was seemingly quite a boring place. Continents moved little, and life evolved excruciatingly slowly. Not much seemed to be going on, which is why ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and how they might have traded them around the world. From Pomeranians to poodles, Saint ...

The Jomon people living in prehistoric Japan had "little to no" Denisovan DNA, suggesting their ancestors may not have been in contact with this now-extinct group of Eurasian humans, a new study ...