A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

Discovered in southern England in the mid-1990s, the artifact may have been made by Neanderthals or Homo heidelbergensis, according to a new study ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A lost continent hidden beneath the sea has been discovered — and scientists even found human bones there. In this video, we explore where this sunken land is, how it disappeared underwater, and why ...

Delaware County police say they’ve arrested 34-year-old Jonathan Gerlach after finding around 100 skeletons in his apartment. Trump reaction to watching video of ICE shooting Minnesota woman revealed ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Reality TV star Chad Ollinger was booked on suspicion of murder after his cellmate was found dead at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. Correction officers were conducting routine checks ...

When business revs back up next week, Warner Bros. Discovery looks set to reject Paramount’s amended hostile takeover bid due in part to concerns at the delay that could dog its planned cable spinoff ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution. The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and ...

For a long time, scientists have puzzled over the origins of the human species. It is unclear from which common ancestor modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans all descend. According to earlier ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...