In the real world, convinced that aliens were planning to beam him into the sky, Daniel says that he repeatedly drove his ...
Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...
From interactive exhibits to racing history, Charlotte’s NASCAR Hall of Fame offers more than most visitors expect.
Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...
Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...
Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...
At the end of 1924, an anthropologist began chipping away rock around an old primate skull — and rewrote the story of human evolution. The diminutive skull — about the size of a coffee mug — clearly ...
The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...
A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Suffolk, England, has pushed back the timeline for human-made fire by an astonishing 350,000 years. Researchers excavating at Barnham have uncovered ...
It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making, dating back 400,000 years, in Suffolk, England. The mastery of fire was long considered the exclusive hallmark of modern humans, ...
The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...
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