Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago—which, based on its location, means that said someone must have been a ...

Could one hundred dudes beat a single silverback gorilla in a fight? It's a question that's been weighing on the minds of ...

Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped paleontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down ...

Richard Steinwinkler, an experienced mountaineer and a member of the Adventure Club of Europe, was climbing in the Himalayas ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...