During their excavation work, archaeologists discovered an oval stone measuring roughly 8.3 by 5.7 inches in diameter and ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

K’gari’s iconic lakes have existed for tens of thousands of years—but they haven’t always been full. New research shows that ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during ...

The cutting-edge gamebot, named Ludii, “played the game against itself and identified a few variants that are enjoyable for humans to play.” ...

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...

A routine patrol in the Ionian Sea led Italian authorities to a remarkable discovery: a late Roman merchant shipwreck still carrying its cargo of amphorae.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

"They consider the caves as entrance to the underworld... I'm getting closer to understanding what our ancestors wanted to express." Oscilloscope Labs has unveiled the official trailer for the ...