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

Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. Video above: ...

The visitor to the world-famous ancient site of Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye can get a better appreciation of it if ...

Queen Elizabeth, an invitingly beautiful national park, is home to more than 95 mammals and over 600 bird species living across its grasslands, forests and wetlands ...

Lincoln State Park in Lincoln City, Indiana isn’t just another green space – it’s 1,747 acres of soul-restoring wilderness that makes you question why you’ve spent so many weekends at the mall. This ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

From Homer to Philostratus, Ancient Greek sources describe Pygmies as dwarves at the world’s edge, fighting cranes and living ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

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Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

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

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