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'Everything about it is weird': Neanderthals may have created...
Archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes describes key Neanderthal artifacts that suggest the ancient human relatives clearly sought to modify...
Did art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise...
Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the...
Our mixed-up human family: 8 human relatives that went...
Modern humans are far from the only species in the Homo genus. Here are others that went extinct long ago.
Photos: Ghostly plasma loops linger on the sun after massive...
A photographer recently snapped an incredibly detailed photo of gigantic, ghostly plasma loops towering above the sun's fiery surface...
13 of the world's oldest artworks, some crafted by extinct...
Archaeological evidence suggests that symbolism in art, once seen as something that only modern humans were capable of, was produced...
Japan's SLIM moon lander may be dead for good as freezing...
Days after being revived from its initial power loss on the moon, Japan's SLIM lander will now sleep through the deep cold of lunar...
Women have 4 times men's rate of autoimmune disease. The...
A "complex" that regulates gene activity in people with two X chromosomes may predispose them to autoimmune disease, a new study hints.
Bizarre 'magnetic anomaly' discovered deep below New Zealand's...
Lake Rotorua, which sits at the heart of a dormant volcano and is the setting for one of New Zealand's most famous Māori love stories,...
