Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Ancient Mars is starting to look less like a scattered patchwork of dried-up valleys and more like a planet once ruled by ...

A small company from California has plans to harness the power of the Sun, redirecting its light much like ancient humans did ...

A team of paleontologists has meticulously documented an astonishing 16,600 individual footprints within Toro Toro, a ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Giant anacondas grew large early and kept that size for millions of years, surviving climate shifts and habitat changes ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Ancient civilizations left behind enigmatic sites like the Plain of Jars, Nazca Lines, Paracas Candelabra, Yonaguni Submarine ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

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From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, Earth was seemingly quite a boring place. Continents moved little, and life evolved excruciatingly slowly. Not much seemed to be going on, which is why ...