The 500-year-old clue got them started, but archaeologists needed more modern georadar techniques to finish the job.

The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land.

Diedrich argued that Ice Age hyenas had powerful jaws and often gnawed on juvenile cave bear bones, puncturing them in ...

Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, observation, ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

The Virupaksha Temple in Hampi, Karnataka, blends spirituality with a surprising scientific element. This ancient temple ...

The team recovered protein fragments from teeth found at multiple sites across Turkana, ranging in age from 1.5 to 18 million ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great “contribution” to science: the killing of Archimedes. Today the U.S. risks suffering ...

Kennedy’s decision to replace ACIP wholesale and the comments he has made about deviating from standard vaccine policymaking ...