Russell Cave in northeastern Alabama preserves an 8,700-year record of human habitation, underscoring its value as a rare archaeological archive in North America. Archaeological layers detail the ...

The captivating reintroduction of six bison in a forest preserve has deeper meaning to Indigenous people and advocates of ...

Reeling in a 100-pound halibut? Aiming to outrun the world’s fastest man? Trying to become the greatest speed skater of all ...

Scientists have discovered Australia’s largest and most diverse dinosaur footprint with strong links to Indigenous heritage.

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already declining well before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago seems established.

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

This post was originally published on March 24, 2011] Giant bunnies are not scary. MGM learned that the hard way with the ...

A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past of the Magdalenian period in the Cantabrian region of Spain can be ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...