» 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
» 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
» Buried for 23,000 years: These footprints are rewriting American history
» These 545-million-year-old fossil trails just rewrote the story of evolution
» This team tried to cross 140 miles of treacherous ocean like stone-age humans—and it worked
» Farming without famine: Ancient Andean innovation rewrites agricultural origins
» Mammals didn't walk upright until late—here's what fossils reveal
» No kings buried here: DNA unravels the myth of incestuous elites in ancient Ireland
» Monster salamander with powerful jaws unearthed in Tennessee fossil find
» The 10,000-mile march through fire that made dinosaurs possible
» What a dinosaur ate 100 million years ago—Preserved in a fossilized time capsule
» 2,000 miles through rivers and ice: Mapping neanderthals’ hidden superhighways across eurasia
» New evidence reveals advanced maritime technology in the philippines 35,000 years ago
» Drone tech uncovers 1,000-year-old native american farms in michigan
» 3,500-year-old graves reveal secrets that rewrite bronze age history
» Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues
» Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor
» Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans
» Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier loss
» Rock record illuminates oxygen history
» Dinosaurs could hold key to cancer discoveries
» Does planting trees really help cool the planet?
» New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human remains
» A sweeping study of 7,000 years of monuments in South Arabia
» Bed bugs are most likely the first human pest, new research shows
» New velvet worm species a first for the arid Karoo
» Chemists recreate how RNA might have reproduced for first time
» Oldest whale bone tools discovered
» A root development gene that's older than root development
» Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant 'harmal' identified in Iron Age Arabia

» 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
» Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum
» The evolution of male–female dominance relations in primate societies
» Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago
» The earliest domestic pigs in Neolithic China were closely managed
» A norm about harvest division is maintained by a desire to follow tradition, not by social policing
» Early evidence for pig domestication (8,000 cal. BP) in the Lower Yangtze, South China
» Psychoactive plants and secret rituals in ancient Peru
» Correction for Izdebski et al., Unbalanced social–ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland
» A universally applicable definition for domestication
» Iñupiat marine mammal science a long time coming
» Reevaluating the relationship between female sociality and infant survival in wild baboons
» Group traits moderate the relationship between individual social traits and fitness in gorillas
» Compositional analysis of obsidian artifacts from the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire
» Diversity statistics of onomastic data reveal social patterns in Hebrew Kingdoms of the Iron Age