Home decorating isn’t unique to Homo sapiens. More than 40,000 years ago, bands of Neanderthals turned a spacious rock shelter in the mountains of Spain into a cozy home, fashioning wood into tools and windbreaks and burning it for heat...

A new study on ancient food production in tropical Belize, co-led by the University of New Mexico and published in Communications Earth & Environment, provides evidence that people in the Maya-speaking region were dedicated farmers thousands of years before the...

A team of researchers from Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey is investigating a long-standing claim that a boat-shaped geological formation in the country's east contains the remains of Noah's Ark.

After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought. The study was published Friday (Oct. 2) in the journal Science Advances.