Archaeologists have found an ancient wooden structure at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls in Zambia. This structure — dated to about 476,000 years ago — has no known parallels in the African ...

Mosquitoes track odors, locate hosts, and find mates visually. The color of a food resource, such as a flower or warm-blooded host, can be dominated by long wavelengths of the visible light spectrum ...

The new-submerged Northwest Shelf of Sahul — the combined landmass of Australia and New Guinea at times of lower sea level — was a vast area of land in the Late Pleistocene epoch that connected the ...

Archaeologists have found the 780,000-year-old remains of a cooked carp-like fish at the wetland Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel. Fish contain a high amount of omega fatty acids that, ...

Interbreeding between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 8-9 million years ago gave rise to the modern-day potato (Solanum tuberosum); this ancient evolutionary event ...

A 3,500-year-old suit of Mycenaean bronze armor from the Greek village of Dendra may have been used in battle, not just for ceremonial purposes as previously thought. One of the oldest known suits of ...