The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Read on to see the world's oldest man-made structures that are still in use, from Roman amphitheatres to Chinese temples...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some interpretations suggest that, “kissing under the mistletoe symbolizes forgiveness, ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Scientists have unraveled how an early form of Bronze Age plague that differed from the Black Death spread across Europe.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Tuscaloosa will celebrate its 206th birthday on December 13, a milestone going back to 1819, when the city was officially ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

The return of UK’s ancient stones as a place of worship - Across the UK, some have turned to history, folklore and nature as ...