WHEN you read the news these days, it’s easy to imagine that Earth is the worst planet in the Solar System. Sure, we are told ...

Archaeologists were puzzled when they found parrot feathers in a pre-Inca burial in coastal Peru. A new study suggests that the birds were captured in the wild and kept alive over lengthy journeys ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

The discovery of ancient clay beads made by children and adults thousands of years before the use of pottery suggests a ritualistic purpose ...

By reconstructing ancient nitrogen-processing enzymes, scientists are uncovering new clues about how early life survived on a ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

There were more than 1,000 incidents of assault, arson, bomb threats and verbal and physical harassment linked to the victims ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

A study in Ethiopia has revealed that scavengers such as hyenas play an important role in waste disposal and carbon emission ...

Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...