Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

Everyone knows that the boomerang eventually returns after being thrown. Though this ancient weapon itself cannot return to the past, it can bring a remarkable history to modern times. Ironically, ...

Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...

US President Donald Trump on Friday cast doubt on the chances of a deal with Iran, saying that he wasn't “happy” with the proposals sent by Tehran as negotiations drag on. Speaking to reporters at the ...

A former employee of JPMorgan Chase has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing senior executive Lorna Hajdini of months of alleged sexual abuse, racial harassment and intimidation inside the workplace, ...

In a sweltering tropical rainforest on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, I started to appreciate why archaeologists and anthropologists had long ignored ‘jungles’ in their search for ...

We provide global assessment of the possible link between Pleistocene hominin arrival and island extinction. The existing records on islands around the world do not support a significant and ...

Whew. What a year. Whether you're an old hand at this mobile gaming lark or new to the thrills and spills to be had on your phone, 2006 has been a great vintage. From action-adventures to puzzlers to ...

Striding bipedalism is a key derived behaviour of hominids that possibly originated soon after the divergence of the chimpanzee and human lineages. Although bipedal gaits include walking and running, ...