
Study suggests Neanderthals were wiped out by a common childhood ear infection
Of all the possible ways the Neanderthals may have gone extinct, it turns out that it may have been as simple as a common childhood...
Of all the possible ways the Neanderthals may have gone extinct, it turns out that it may have been as simple as a common childhood...
For 1,400 years, the ancient Assyrian empire dominated the Middle East ruling an area stretching from Turkey to Egypt and east to Iran through what...
Bigfoot may or may not be real, but there is a living relative of the giant ape thought to be Bigfoot already living among us...
Unbeknownst to most of us, there are ancient footprints right under our feet beneath the ground we continue to walk on today, and now scientists...
These days, life on our fragile planet seems to be under threat on numerous fronts, from climate change to pollution, to overpopulation, to nuclear war....
For fans of the “Vikings” series on the History Channel, the idea of shield-maidens, strong woman warriors are welcomed and unsurprising. However, in the real...
A study of ancient teeth belonging to modern humans and Neanderthals of the Aurignacian culture at Manot Cave in Israel is shedding new light on...
Scientists studying the causes of ice ages say that an increase in Antarctic ice levels could be enough to trigger a new ice age that...
It is generally accepted by scientists that modern humans, also known as Homo sapiens, migrated out of eastern Africa around 200,000 years ago. But a...
Mainstream scientists seem to have inadvertently given some support to the ancient astronaut theory again. Recently, we wrote about a “new” scientific discovery that unlocked...
In a new effort to find ancient tombs and burials, archaeologists are turning to the oldest form of detection technology that humans have been using...
You never know what you could find in the depths of the ocean. Never-before-seen alien-like organisms are discovered all the time. This time, a diver...
It’s one of the most well-known stories from the Bible: Noah and his family were instructed by God to build an ark and load it...
Some 3,000 years ago, astrologers working for the king of the Assyrian empire kept a close eye on the skies, and what they found and...
If you’ve seen the movie “Jaws,” then you probably recall perhaps the most famous scene in it: The giant great white shark swims by a...
When we think of woolly mammoths, we think of creatures that walked the Earth tens of thousands of years ago before the entire species became extinct...
Around 5,000 years ago, a culture known as the Battle Axe Culture (BAC) existed in Scandinavia and Germany as part of the larger Corded Ware...
Up until the 12th century, a unique species of walrus thrived in Iceland. And then the Vikings arrived, thus marking the beginning of the end...
A shipwreck from the days of ancient Greece has yielded an incredible treasure which reveals that Greek culture of the time — around 87 BC...
Io is the fourth-largest moon in the solar system and is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. Io is also the most...
For just a moment, consider that we aren’t alone in the universe and other life forms exist beyond the Milky Way and Earth, which is...
As technology advances, the archaeological field is utilizing new tools to make discoveries that otherwise would have been missed. And thanks to new microscope technology,...