Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

“The humanoid space has a very, very big hill to climb,” said Cosima du Pasquier, founder and CEO of Haptica Robotics, which ...

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

On a cold December morning in 1960, a small surgical team at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston gathered around an ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Researchers spent four years analyzing to rule out natural wildfires. Geochemical tests showed temperatures had exceeded 700 degrees Celsius.

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...

Discover "Networks of the Past" at CSMVS in Mumbai, a gallery exploring ancient India's global significance through over 300 ...

The findings push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly 350,000 years. Until now, the oldest ...