BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

Scientists just inserted a human gene into mice, and the results are nothing short of mind-blowing. The vocalizations of the ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

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A mysterious human ancestor with a chimp-sized brain may have performed rituals long before modern humans. Strange carvings ...

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Earth's Northern Lights typically dance near the poles, but 41,000 years ago, they lit up skies over North Africa and ...

While the topic of this book might seem a little depressing, it is really a powerful wake-up call to all of us, based on the ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.