Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and spread of animals driven by cults is not uncommon. For instance, previous ...

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

Tiny detail on animal bone changes what we know about our human ancestors - The first evidence that hominins butchered several animals at the site in Romania at least 1.95 million years ago has been r ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...