» A 540-million-year-old fossil is rewriting evolution
» AI revives lost 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn
» Archaeologists may have finally solved Peru’s strange “Band of Holes” mystery
» 5,500-year-old site in Jordan reveals a lost civilization’s secrets
» 2.7-million-year-old tools reveal humanity’s first great innovation
» 2 million-year-old teeth reveal secrets from the dawn of humanity
» Humans evolved faster than any other ape
» Ancient tides may have sparked humanity’s first urban civilization
» Hippos once roamed frozen Germany with mammoths
» Dinosaurs were thriving when the asteroid struck
» Ancient DNA reveals the deadly diseases behind Napoleon’s defeat
» Before T. rex, there was the “dragon prince”
» From poison to power: How lead exposure helped shape human intelligence
» Archaeologists uncover lost land bridge that may rewrite human history
» 12,000-year-old rock art found in Arabia reveals a lost civilization
» Scientists just proved the moai could walk, solving a 500-year mystery
» 3,000 years of secrets hidden beneath Egypt’s greatest temple
» Hidden for 70 million years, a tiny fossil fish is rewriting freshwater evolution
» Scientists uncover a mysterious Jurassic lizard with snake-like jaws
» Fossils in germany reveal a Jurassic sea monster with a swordfish snout
» The accidental discovery that forged the Iron Age
» This forgotten king united England long before 1066
» Student’s pinkie-sized fossil reveals a new croc species
» Stunning fossil from the Gobi Desert rewrites dinosaur history
» Forgotten royal warship sunk 500 years ago reveals surprising secrets
» Who are the Papua New Guineans? New DNA study reveals stunning origins
» 150-million-year-old teeth expose dinosaurs’ secret diets
» Who were the mystery humans behind Indonesia’s million-year-old tools?
» Dinosaur teeth reveal secrets of Jurassic life 150 million years ago
» Baby pterosaurs died in ancient storms—and their fossils reveal the truth
» Woolly mammoth teeth reveal the world’s oldest microbial DNA
» Scientists discover armored “goblin monster” in prehistoric Utah
» Ancient DNA finally solves the mystery of the world’s first pandemic
» Forgotten rock in Japan reveals 220-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil
» The hidden Denisovan gene that helped humans conquer a new world
» Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped people thrive in the Americas
» New fossils reveal a hidden branch in human evolution
» Ancient fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
» 140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals
» Mexican cave stalagmites reveal the deadly droughts behind the Maya collapse
» Mysterious Denisovan interbreeding shaped the humans we are today
» Bizarre ancient creatures unearthed in the Grand Canyon
» Tiny ancient whale with a killer bite found in Australia
» Scientists warn ocean could soon reach Rapa Nui’s sacred moai
» A 16-million-year-old amber fossil just revealed the smallest predator ant ever found
» Scientists just uncovered three ancient worlds frozen beneath Illinois for 300 million years
» Stunning “wonder reptile” discovery rewrites the origins of feathers
» Scientists reexamine 47-year-old fossil and discover a new Jurassic sea monster
» 4,000-year-old teeth reveal the earliest human high — Hidden in plaque
» 400-million-year-old fish exposes big mistake in how we understood evolution
» A dusty fossil drawer held a 300-million-year-old evolutionary game-changer
» A tiny dinosaur bone just rewrote the origin of bird flight
» A 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the spider origin story
» Ancient recipes or rituals? Neanderthal bones reveal a prehistoric culinary mystery
» Butchery clues reveal Neanderthals may have had “family recipes”
» Scholars just solved a 130-year literary mystery—and it all hinged on one word
» Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding
» Inside the Maya king’s tomb that rewrites Mesoamerican history
» The first pandemic? Scientists find 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric DNA
» North america’s oldest pterosaur unearthed in Arizona’s Triassic time capsule

» A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia
» Doubting doubly labeled water
» Reply to Uzoigwe: DLW is safe and validated
» Correction for Zhou et al., 9,000-year-old barley consumption in the foothills of central Asia
» Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland
» Modeling the rise and demise of Classic Maya cities: Climate, conflict, and economies of scale
» High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market
» The presence of Quina lithic technology in China 50 to 60 ka ago remains a hypothesis
» Reply to Bourguignon et al.: Convergence is a plausible hypothesis for Quina technology in East Asia
» Châtelperronian cultural diversity at its western limits: Shell beads and pigments from La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire
» The discovery of adzuki bean (Vigna angularis) in eastern China during the 9th millennium BP and its domestication in East Asia
» A reanalysis of population dynamics in the Casas Grandes region of Northern Mexico using mitochondrial DNA
» Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia
» Did the vilca/tobacco snuff combination at Chavín aim for an “ayahuasca effect”?
» Urban water security and the historical pools of Jerusalem
» 9,000-year-old barley consumption in the foothills of central Asia
» Radiocarbon dating of Jerusalem’s Siloam Dam links climate data and major waterworks
» Rediscovering fire
» Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest
» Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture