The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

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The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

The twins were born to a 22-year-old female named Mafuko, who lost her own mother to armed individuals. The extremely ...

A new mouse study suggests that "beige" fat surrounding blood vessels can send calming signals to the arteries—revealing an ...

The California-based Animal Legal Defense Fund works to prevent animal abuse and strengthen anti-cruelty laws, but they also have a lighter side, regularly releasing their Top Ten Weirdest Animal Laws ...

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Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

She is someone who has earned many titles, including NFL cheerleader, world-renowned scientist, and National Geographic ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...