Archaeology

Hiding out in what is now New Mexico, beaver-like animal used specialized dentition to live on plants

The discovery may be evidence of the oldest known case of ritual beheading in the New World

One of the earliest big predators to prowl Earth's primordial waters was a sea scorpion nearly 1.7 meters long

Traces of lice and lice eggs, as much as 800 years old, have been uncovered by archaeologists working in northern Chile

A recently unearthed burial in Jamestown, Va., from the early 1600s shows signs of Catholic rituals that are hard to explain in a colony set against the papacy

Glacial archaeologists scramble to save long-preserved specimens thawing out of vanishing ice before they are lost forever

"Hugging" creature from Brazil shakes up picture of snake evolution

The remains of a preserved 50-million-year-old cell may provide clues to the evolution of earthworms and leeches

Ancient coastal dwellers made tracks just below the tide line of an island off British Columbia, but the big question is when

“Kennewick Man” sequencing points to Native American ancestry

In an excerpt from his new book Ian Tattersall lays out the story of how a scientific giant in the field of evolution put forth a spectacularly incorrect theory about the diversity of hominids

Researchers have found what appear to be collagen fibers and blood cells in unremarkable-looking fossils