Evidence of some of the earliest dogs has been identified at two University of Liverpool/British Institute at Ankara archaeological excavation projects in central Anatolia, Turkey. Shedding new light ...

Odin was a kelpie. Attentive and protective, with a happy smile and an endless hope for food, he succumbed to a terminal disease late last year. At his death, a deep sense of grief ripped through the ...

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The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient ...

An ancient reference to mysterious beings—often called Nephilim—has resurfaced in modern conversations about human origins.

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

Starseeds say they’re not from this planet. Online, they’re sharing mythologies and rituals that, for some, are taking on the ...

Ancient DNA from a medieval burial inside a Neolithic monument reveals unexpected ancestry links and hints that the site’s ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Two archaeologists explore the enduring myth that extraterrestrials contributed to the various ancient cultures around the ...