For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

15th century imperial silk paintings hint that explorer’s voyages may have carried some unintended passengers, researchers ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

The butchered remains of great bustards found in the graves of people buried 15,000 years ago show that these birds had a ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and spread of animals driven by cults is not uncommon. For instance, previous ...

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

The Silklab at Tufts is a misnomer in a sense. While the lab is working with silk, a textile humans have been using for over ...

The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout ...