Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

However, one ancient superpower continues to fascinate researchers and the public, who flock to museums and local libraries to learn more about its culture, innovations, and military prowess. Ancient ...

Beneath the rolling hills of West Java, Indonesia, lies a site that could challenge the very timeline of human civilization.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Rumors of cannibalism in pre-historic Europe have only recently been confirmed. A new study published in the journal ...