Archaeology

DNA analyses find that early Homo sapiens mated with other human species and hint that such interbreeding played a key role in the triumph of our kind

Consumer genetic-testing companies report how much of one's DNA comes from archaic human species, but what do the results really mean?

Dinosaurs — or at least their ancestors — may have gotten an earlier start than once believed

At least 27 human species have walked the Earth, but only our lineage survived. Our ancestors may have crossed a cerebral Rubicon that led to babies being born “early”

Consumer genetic-testing companies report how much of one's DNA comes from archaic human species, but what do the results really mean?

An exhumation this week of the Chilean poet's remains might raise as many questions as it answers. His death officially was caused by prostate cancer but new allegations have been made

A nesting site has yielded the earliest known organic remains of a terrestrial vertebrate

Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has spent a career unlocking climate secrets frozen at the top of the world's highest mountain ranges

Latest NOVA episode takes a deep dive inside the mysterious Antikythera Mechanism

Adherents of "de-extinction" hope to see al world repopulated with species thought lost to the planet--but there are some major caveats

New research suggests oceans play a critical role in climate by regulating greenhouse gas levels

The discovery of the jaw of a 112-million-year-old mammal from the early Cretaceous Period suggests that small creatures were already evolving quickly