Soil from 7,000-year-old Swedish graves reveals hidden feathers and fur, showing some Stone Age people were fully dressed at their burial.

Below the Clouds” and Werner Herzog’s “Ghost Elephants” offer thrilling but troubled visions of a world in environmental flux.

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists know that Neanderthals and humans mated because there is ...

For this new study, researchers analyzed goat remains dating back to about 1100-900 BCE from a Bronze Age hillfort called ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...

Skateholm’s importance is not only that it is large, but that it preserves a long span of hunter-gatherer life and death. The Swedish History Museum notes the area around the lagoon was used for ...

New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...