The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

High in Norway’s mountains, a lone hiker recently walked across a patch of retreating ice and stumbled onto a scatter of wooden stakes, stone fragments, and ancient debris that had not seen daylight ...

Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that are older, more complex, and more surprising than the history books ever ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed field and received a signal. What he unearthed over the following days would ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...