A near-complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, an adult, bird-like dinosaur that weighed under 2 pounds, has been ...

Before pythons and anacondas, 47-foot giants slithered through steamy rainforests. These prehistoric snakes redefined what ...

Lead image: This artist’s conception depicts how the formation of the universe’s first stars may have appeared. Dense clouds of hydrogen and helium likely collapsed inward, increasing pressure and ...

The museum sits directly on Main Street in downtown Wytheville. You’ll find stories about her relatives and her early years.

In our very messed-up world the longing for something much better is to be expected, but in a fallen world filled with ...

Passive spectatorship is rapidly becoming a relic of the past. For decades, the primary way to enjoy sports was defined by a specific kind of ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

A new interdisciplinary study published in Nature Communications provides the first detailed insights, from a biomolecular and archaeological perspective, into the lives of people living in Central ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...