A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously ...

Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.

On the legal turf, the battle is between findings of the ASI vs creative inferences that creep in depending on the politics ...

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It may be the first recorded sighting in the world of a live adult black devil fish in shallow waters, in broad daylight, and ...

Scientists have long sought reliable methods to date ancient geological events, but a surprising find in deep-sea samples may ...

Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...

Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals ... a role he held until his appointment as Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 1981. During the 1970s ...