Archaeology

Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould was influenced by Marx and Kuhn as well as by Darwin.

Some prominent South Africans associate Homo naledi with stereotypes of blacks promulgated during decades of whites-only rule

Researchers built a physical model of the tail of the late Jurassic dinosaur Apatosaurus and found that its tail tip could have moved at supersonic speed to produce a whip-crack sound

Chipmunk-sized critter with hedgehog-like spines lived 125 million years ago, leaving behind complete skeleton and soft tissues

"Stunning" find shows that Homo sapiens reached Asia around 100,000 years ago

Homo naledi’s hands and feet could reveal answers about a key shift in human evolution—the move from a life of climbing trees to one spent walking on the ground

Hiding out in what is now New Mexico, beaver-like animal used specialized dentition to live on plants

The discovery may be evidence of the oldest known case of ritual beheading in the New World

One of the earliest big predators to prowl Earth's primordial waters was a sea scorpion nearly 1.7 meters long

Traces of lice and lice eggs, as much as 800 years old, have been uncovered by archaeologists working in northern Chile

A recently unearthed burial in Jamestown, Va., from the early 1600s shows signs of Catholic rituals that are hard to explain in a colony set against the papacy

Glacial archaeologists scramble to save long-preserved specimens thawing out of vanishing ice before they are lost forever