Researchers have found cannibalized human remains from at least 11 people in El Mirador cave in northern Spain, suggesting it ...

After using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the ...

A Stone Age skull discovered in a cave in Italy is the oldest evidence of artificial cranial modification ever found in Europe.

Paleontologists in Germany have described a never-before-seen species of Jurassic marine reptile from 183 million years ago.

A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida ...

A large study of ME/CFS included more than 15,000 people and identified eight locations in the genome linked to the disease.

In a rare skywatching treat, you can see August's full Sturgeon Moon rise soon after sunset on both Saturday, Aug. 9 and ...

A woman went to the hospital several times with the feeling that something was stuck in her eye. It turned out to be ...

Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, ...

The males of four newfound tarantula species have extremely long genitalia so that they can keep their distance from aggressive females during mating, researchers say.

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A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region.