An Austrian winemaker’s quiet renovation project took a stunning turn when the earth beneath him revealed a hidden secret.
An African hominin population that existed very early in the Homo sapiens lineage is providing new insights into humanity's ...
Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...
Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...
Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...
New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...
You don't need a brain the size of a planet to know that a human brain is much larger than a baboon's. Since a human brain is ...