Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing ...

Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

For more than a century, the largest dinosaurs have seemed like a closed club dominated by a few famous sauropods with necks as long as city buses. Now a neglected set of bones is forcing ...

Seems like there’s a Shazam for everything nowadays. First it was music, then plants, then plant diseases. You can even ask ...

In a world where rental prices seem to climb faster than a mountain goat on espresso, there exists a charming Utah oasis ...

The town’s lodging follows the same pattern of affordability seen in other sectors, with rates typically running 20-30% below comparable options in Utah’s more touristed areas.

Standing between two racks of whale bones in the National Museum Collection Centre in Granton, Professor Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator ...

Human ancestors were all hominins, but not every species that came before us belonged to the Homo (human) genus. The earliest members of that particular group have long been thought to be Homo habilis ...

Justice Department antitrust enforcers wanted to investigate the $1.6 billion merger of the country’s two biggest real-estate brokerages but were overruled by senior officials who thought the deal ...