Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers living in Western Europe made tools from the bones of whales that had been stranded along the Atlantic coast. After dating those implements ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

An African flamingo that escaped a Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas twenty years ago is still keeping wildlife aficionados on their toes, after being spotted in Texas several times over the past 10 years ...

This year’s winning images include a curious leopard seal, a swarm of jellyfish, and a very grumpy looking Japanese warbonnet ...

For generations, Mary Mack’s family has offered free burial plots to the bereaved families on St. Helena Island. It’s an ...

A concert from the Galveston Symphony Orchestra marked 160 years since enslaved people in Texas were officially freed – a day ...

This skull of a 1.8-million-year-old Paranthropus robustus individual was unearthed in South Africa, but it was not one of the fossils included in the study. José Braga and Didier Descouens via ...

All of our members are wealthy," one founder says of the club, which offers Instagram-ready curated trips to commoners who ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the "AMOC," is a system of ocean currents confined to the Atlantic basin that plays a crucial role in regulating Earth's ...