Up until the late 1950s, Europeans could go and see people from other ethnic backgrounds exhibited in cages, or in specially ...

Researchers in Australia recently discovered a 2 million year old skull that gives us more clues about our evolution as a ...

Each of these ancient fossils, even if just a small part of a skeleton, represents an identifiable character in the story of humankind.

Over 3.6 million years ago, three distant human relatives went for a stroll, blissfully unaware they were making history. By sheer chance, their footsteps became imprinted in volcanic ash and lasted ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

Plaster casts of Pompeii’s victims preserve moments of human connection as the A.D. 79 ... leading scientists to conclude ...

University of Missouri scientist Brandi L. MacDonald is using modern technology only found at Mizzou to help researchers ...

Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.

It is fitting that Samhain, now transformed into Halloween, should still be celebrated with pumpkins and ghosts in modern ...

Halloween is the night when scary creatures come out to play. Discover the origins of some of the holiday's biggest ghouls.

Creating value for shareholders has long been considered the primary purpose of corporations, especially within the framework ...

Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 ...