Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

This ship was huge. It was like a city-sized ship. And there was hundreds of beings on board,” said Debbie Solaris, a ...

Paint Mines Interpretive Park in Calhan is Colorado’s best-kept secret, and honestly, the locals would probably prefer it ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

But if the original Marathon trilogy from the 1990s — and numerous hints developer Bungie has dropped — are any indication, the new game may introduce something much weirder than rogue robots: alien ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Mosquitoes may have started targeting humans millions of years ago, possibly during the spread of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia.

The Absolute Universe's Lex Luthor gets a horrifying origin story that involves Brainiac torturing and murdering Lex's family ...

The article ‘ A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date ’ by Amélie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford was originally published on The Conversation and has been ...

An alleged screenshot of a 2006 4chan post displayed a user's warning about a dark future, predicting pandemics and World War ...

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.