Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
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A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
An ancient continent called Balkanatolia rose and fell in the area in and around what is now the eastern Mediterranean.
Psychologist Adrian Furnham has termed this effect the male hubris, female humility problem.
Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
An elephant at the Bronx Zoo has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists.
The cause of the recent uptick in radiation is unknown, but speculation about another catastrophe at Chernobyl is hyperbolic.
The new tool may someday be used in work that needs a light touch.
Technology designed to listen for atomic bombs can also hear tornadoes.
The Human Genome Project put together 92% of our DNA blueprint. Here’s what it took to complete the rest.
It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.
The peasant turned czarist advisor has come to be known and feared as the devil incarnate, but was he really as demonic as we have been led to believe?
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?
We spend much of our early years learning arithmetic and algebra. What’s the use?
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
The pieces don’t represent an army, they stand in for the Western social order.
One million year old mammoth DNA more than doubles the previous record and suggests that even older genomes could be found.
Sharks fear killer whales. How does this impact the ecosystems they share?
Most of us will never run a 4 minute mile. But on a bicycle, almost anyone can do it. As human beings, we often take for granted how our bodies work. […]
It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]