Modern humans have existed for vastly longer than recorded civilization, leaving enormous stretches of our past with ...

The hypothesis that a globally connected, technologically advanced civilization existed during the Stone Age before being erased by a cataclysm continues to capture public imagination. However, ...

GUANGHAN, China—In July 1986, workers at a brick factory in southwestern China were digging for clay when they hit upon something unexpected: dozens of dazzling pieces of jade. The chance discovery ...

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"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A large ancient population dubbed the Aquiry civilization by archaeologists may have lived in the ...

Martti Pärssinen, lead author of the study, said the discovery changes scientists’ understanding of the “supposedly pristine Amazon” Getty A Nature study discovered nearly 400 new ancient geometric ...

New airborne laser scans surveying the Amazon have found ancient human structures rewriting the history of this allegedly pristine wilderness. Reading time 3 minutes The scientific consensus up until ...

The Amazon might not have been the untamed jungle we once thought. The world’s largest tropical rainforest was allegedly once home to a sprawling civilization whose population numbered in the millions ...

Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

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The Turkish-made Akinci drone was thought to be flying at an altitude over the range of Houthi air defenses. It follows that the Houthis now have better air defenses. Saudi Arabia is reported to have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossilized tail bones of an Ichthyosaurus, around 190 million years old and weighing 800 kilograms. - Markus Scholz/picture ...