The exact origin of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is still a mystery, but researchers believe they are edging closer to the ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in the ancient city of Jerash, Jordan, offers chilling insight into one of history’s first recorded pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within a matter of ...

Study reveals a 60-foot kraken-like octopus that may have rivaled ocean predators, reshaping views of ancient marine ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Researchers have discovered ancient platypus fossils in outback South Australia, where they are believed to have lived with ...

Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life.

The discovery offers insight into how early Christians read and understood Scripture—and provides a point of connection for ...

A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that lived together roughly 100,000 years ago.

For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the extinction of Neanderthal, ancient humans, in ...

Minted in Troy in the third century B.C.E., the object might have been buried as a gift to the dead. Archaeologists don't ...

A new study in PNAS finds that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago continues to impact ...

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...