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Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

Flowing nearly 650 miles through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, the Tennessee River is one of the most ...

A fossilized tooth unearthed in Brazil reveals a fearsome apex predator that once ruled prehistoric swamplands—an ancient ...

Researchers reveal that a 66-million-year-old “dinosaur mummy” wasn’t preserved skin but a thin clay film that perfectly ...

270-million-year-old fossil tracks in Mallorca are rewriting the story of early mammal evolution and locomotion.

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

Lindsay Nikole takes us on a bold, hilarious, and chaotic journey through the history of our planet, packed with bizarre ...

Archaeologists outside of Rome uncover ancient heavy-duty tools made from elephant bones over 400,000 years ago.

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation in the U.S., credited with helping save rare whales from extinction. Conservative leaders feel they ...

On a spit of sand 12 miles north of Santa Cruz, a small, emaciated sea lion lay on its side. The only sign of life was the deep press of its flippers against its belly, relaxing for a few seconds, ...