If you were transported back in time some 100,000 years there’s a good chance you’d run into any number of creatures that could rapidly end your life. One of those species was the saber-toothed cat ...

The Viking Age is one of the most fascinating chapters in human history. Far from being mere savages who raided and pillaged, the Vikings had complex social hierarchies, thriving trade, and cultural ...

Human and animal fossils are a window into the past that give us a connection between the present and the past. Scientists dug up a specimen that is so old and unique that it nudges back the origins ...

With Germany’s defeat imminent, Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Per his orders, the bodies were taken outside of the bunker, doused in 200 liters of benzene, ...

Humans have been modifying their skull shapes since prehistory, but the discovery of a cube-shaped skull has researchers ...

Herbivorous dinosaurs evolved many times during the 180 million-year Mesozoic era, and while they didn't all evolve to chew, swallow, and digest their food in the same way, a few specific strategies ...

Scientists unearthed a 242-million-year-old fossil, Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae, in Devon, pushing back the origins of lepidosaurs. This reptile, the oldest known of its kind, challenges previous ...