Initially discovered in 1933 by a Chinese laborer in Harbin City, China, the skull was once thought to belong to a new human ...

Long before we did this at football games, it was done on the battlefield during the American Civil War - and it goes back even further than that.

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Mike Benz and Cenk Uygur debate the question of abolishing foreign aid on a livestream Saturday hosted by ZeroHedge. Benz ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

The St. Bathans currawong would have been black in color, different from the black and white Australian magpie bird.

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded ...

The ancient Greeks founded Naples in the first millennium BCE. What legends exist about its origin, and what does archaeology reveal?

Some bivalves, like true mussels, are flexible and can adapt to new roles. Others, like the rare glass scallops—bivalves that can both swim and eat meat—are extremely unique. If these rare species go ...

Heraklion, the capital of the Greek island of Crete, is an ancient city that perhaps is under-appreciated for its many ...

Hokkaido University researchers found ancient squids were the dominant ocean predators 100 million years ago - before dinosaurs went extinct.