Archaeology

The new find solves a puzzle about where these big-fanged felines arose

Two-winged flight followed the emergence of avian ancestors

Fossil caiman skulls found in Panama raise questions about the distance between South and Central America at the beginning of the Miocene epoch. Sophie Bushwick reports

Antarctica was flat, warm and crisscrossed with rivers before glaciers buzz-sawed its steep valley

Doctors in medieval Europe weren't as idle as it may seem, as a new analysis of the oldest-known preserved human dissection in Europe reveals

An analysis of Richard I's heart shows that Christians in the Middle Ages embalmed, which the Church has tried to downplay due to the practice's pagan origins

New data show that maize was a staple in Peru as early as 5,000 years ago and probably helped fuel the cultural leap during what's called the late Archaic period. Sophie Bushwick reports

A grain-by-grain analysis of sand from Mauritian beaches reveals rock from an ancient landmass

Archaeologists are drawing comparisons between the fall of the Akkadian empire more than 4,000 years ago and the crises in contemporary Syria

Physical anthropologist Alan Mann talked about third molars as a case study in human evolution at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston

Contrary to findings from mass Stone Age graves, women were equally as likely to be victims of deadly blows as men

Built during the height of the Kush Kingdom, a group of 2000-year-old pyramids resemble French formal gardens