These villains are so old and powerful that they see humans as mere insects whose lives begin and end within the blink of an ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

New York City’s oldest woman is still “dancing” months after her 113th birthday. Louise Jean Signore — born over a century ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...

Hundreds of police officers were searching for the gunman after he escaped into the streets of Rhode Island’s capital, ...

Having a long and healthy life is a goal for most people. Many of us want to achieve our dreams, travel, retire leisurely, and watch our children grow up -- if we choose to have some. However, life is ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a musical instrument so old that it predates most forms of human culture. Crafted from bone and shaped to produce eerie, haunting tones, it offers a rare glimpse into the ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Twenty-five might not sound all that “whopping” in comparison to a human, but it’s pretty darn impressive for a little penguin ( Eudyptula minor ). The smallest of all the penguin species, these wee ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...