
Blasts from ancient supernovae may have led to humans walking upright
Approximately 8 million years ago, the Earth was bombarded with cosmic energy from supernovae, peaking approximately 2.6 million years ago. And that blast of energy...
Approximately 8 million years ago, the Earth was bombarded with cosmic energy from supernovae, peaking approximately 2.6 million years ago. And that blast of energy...
We have all heard at least some of the histories of the Mayan culture unless, of course, you’ve been living under a rock. From the...
We humans like to think that our civilization is advancing, but the ancient record doesn’t necessarily agree. For all our modern technology, longer lifespans, and...
At the urging of his brother Willy, Darrell “Dusty” Crawford of Heart Butte, Montana decide to get his DNA tested. A college project had allowed...
We all know that many species of our ancient ancestors were quite archaic, and did numerous things we might think of as wrong or “backward.”...
The Tibetan plateau is home to Baishiya Karst Cave, a place long-revered by Tibetans who go there to pray or recuperate from illness. And the...
Scientists are finally starting to think as scientists should in terms of alien life. As a result, they’ve synthesized an “artificial” molecular system that handles...
The answer to the question of how life came into existence remains a scientific mystery to this day. While experts agree on prevailing theories, we...
Many think of alien talk as outside the realm of acceptability, but it’s picking up mainstream attention fast. Even people like pop star Katy Perry...
The remnants of a lost ancient city have been discovered by archaeologists in the outskirts of the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. What was once...
We aren’t talking about lasers, nuclear weapons, and guns, but scientists have recently demonstrated that Neanderthals were sophisticated enough to create advanced weapons that allowed...
The Garden of Eden – paradise among paradises, home of the first people, Adam and Eve, who never had to want for anything until a...
A new scientific study suggests scientists may just have come across a new species of ancient humans. Meet ‘Little Foot,’ an ancient hominin believed to have...
Scientists have long believed that farmers in southern Mexico first domesticated corn, otherwise known as maize, from teosinte, an ancient forbearer some 9,000 years ago...
In a recently published study by the Imperial College London, scientists have discovered that microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years...
Chopping off fingers was apparently a thing in Paleolithic societies. Scientists have recently revealed that Paleolithic people cut off their own fingers in part of...
Understanding the origins of life, and why (so far) only Earth is home to nearly infinite forms of life is perhaps one of the greatest...
Scientists have discovered that a mysterious human species lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before modern humans. Not only does this prove that humans lived on...
Human evolution, origins, and history are ultimately a complex thing to understand. Evidence of that are the numerous discoveries made in the past century that...
Are these the remnants of the legendary city of Atlantis? I have written plenty of times in the past about Atlantis, the mythical long-lost city-state...
As Graham Hancock would say, things just keep getting older. A new study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution by an international team led by...
A team of scientists has discovered what are now considered to be the oldest weapons ever discovered in North America. The researchers came across ancient...