Viking silver hoard reveals trade routes from England to the Islamic world
A remarkable Viking treasure uncovered in North Yorkshire has revealed that Viking wealth stretched far beyond raiding monasteries and coastal towns.
New research shows that...
Meet our long-lost cousin: Scientists discover a new ancient human relative
An international team of scientists has made an extraordinary discovery in Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru region: new fossils that suggest early humans and another ancient relative,...
Half-billion-year-old trilobite legs show ancient ocean acrobatics
Over 500 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the oceans were home to trilobites—one of the planet’s earliest and most successful...
Scientists reveal stunning images of sunken warships from the Battle of Guadalcanal
An international team of scientists has completed one of the most detailed surveys ever of historic shipwrecks from World War II, revealing new details...
Mysterious ancient humans reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, study finds
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known evidence of human presence on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, raising new questions about who these early people...
Ancient humans survived on food they could barely chew, study finds
Long before humans had teeth suited for chewing tough plants, our ancient ancestors had already developed a taste for them.
A new study led by...
Early human ancestors had huge size gaps between males and females, fossil study finds
A new study reveals that some of our earliest human ancestors showed extreme differences in body size between males and females—much greater than in...
Fossil misjudged for 150 years is actually a game-changing find
For over a century, a tiny fossil at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology was wrongly believed to be a caterpillar—or maybe a worm, or...
Ancient DNA reveals leprosy existed in the Americas 4,000 years ago
New research has rewritten the history of leprosy in the Americas. Scientists have discovered genetic evidence that a rare strain of the disease, known...
Ancient Neanderthal gene still affects muscles and athletic performance today
A new study has found that a gene variant inherited from Neanderthals still affects the muscles of some people living today—especially when it comes...