The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

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Federal authorities have said Cedric Lodge, 58, was at the center of a ghoulish scheme in which he shipped body parts to ...

A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Six former members of masked metal band Mushroomhead will reunite for two shows in April under the moniker the Ex-Faces. The ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.