Archaeology

DNA from Denisovans suggests they lived in Siberia for millennia and were more genetically diverse than Neandertals, but less diverse than modern humans

A new study provides substantial support for earlier claims of 520-million-year-old arthropod brain systems, raising interesting questions about the nature of brains, life and intelligence in the cosmos

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