The prints, likely left by herds of migrating theropods 70 million years ago, make the Carreras Pampa tracksite the largest ...

An ancient lake that rarely appears, has reemerged once again in the driest place in North America — Death Valley National ...

A new discovery by a team at the University of Buffalo has revealed the genetic trace of a mysterious, and possibly undiscovered, ancient sub-species of human present in the modern-day genome of ...

It’s the Halloween season, a time when we celebrate the macabre with decorations. And apparently humans have been doing so for way longer than we realized. A leading expert on Ancient Babylonian ...

A fossilized shark skull that’s more than 280 million years old could be a missing evolutionary link between sharks, and their strange deep-sea relatives known as ghost sharks. That’s not all: by ...

The traditional tales of Halloween – men transforming into werewolves under a bright moon, inhabitants of a creepy old house driven insane by the ghost that haunts it – were also told two millennia ...

Earlier studies found evidence that the ancestors of modern humans in Europe and Asia interbred with other hominin species, which include the Denisovans and the Neanderthals. Now, analysis of saliva ...

According to UMass classics professor Deborah Felton, there’s definitely more to Halloween then the well-known ghost stories of American culture. In her courses on Greek Mythology and Magic and ...

These days, the idea of mingling closely with our evolutionary cousins is best left to movies like War For the Planet of the Apes, but humans didn’t always feel that way. According to a recent genetic ...

After a parade of Pacific storms drenched California, a body of water that had been erased from most modern maps has quietly ...