A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Stefan Milo Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen ...

Heavy widespread rain continues for most of Atlantic Canada, although beginning to ease West to East later Sunday. It's only ...

China controls over 90% of the global refinement output of rare earth elements, which are used to power everything from ...

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George ...

Baha’is believe life and death are natural components of the eternal process of the soul’s evolution. Death is not the end of ...

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...

Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...

Researchers at Rockefeller University focused on the NOVA1 gene. This gene is crucial for brain development and is found in ...

A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...