Archaeology

The whales and other marine mammals might have been killed millions of years ago by toxic algal blooms

Remember playing "The Oregon Trail" computer game in middle school? As a pioneer leading your family westward in a covered wagon, you hunted virtual deer, rabbits and bison--but not too many.

There are lots of reasons for liking wildebeest… or gnus. For me, the main one comes from the fact that they are insanely flamboyant in appearance.

The site, however, raises further questions about how the stones were transported from their source to what is now the monument

A momentous thing is about to happen. Take a deep breath and prepare yourself. Today is the day when… I finish my series of articles on the crocodiles of the world.

Biologist Svante Pääbo describes the thrilling discovery of DNA from the bones of an ancient Neandertal in this excerpt from his new book

The new analysis of "Clovis boy" DNA also stirs an ethics debate about the handling of tribal remains

A convergence of dating analysis for camel bones in Israel finds that the animals arrived in the area long after biblical descriptions of them are thought to have taken place. Cynthia Graber reports

 

The well-preserved nature of the fossils gives scientist a snapshot of life more than 500 million years ago

More than 90 percent of all life on Earth died off in a geologic blink during the Permian mass extinction, and scientists suspect multiple environmental factors were at play

The 40 skulls, first uncovered in 1988, show evidence of violent lives