Thylacines were wiped out by hunters who thought they massacred sheep, but a new study suggests the quirky carnivores didn't have it in them.
Early humans made sophisticated stone tools like hand axes 1.8 million years ago, a cache of artifacts from Kenya suggests.
Does history support the common perception that disasters can lead to spikes in birth rates?
Why do we bestow people’s names on volatile storms in the first place?
Lager was born when a South American yeast species arrived in Bavaria in the 15th century, says a new study.
The female pharaoh Hatshepsut might have accidentally poisoned herself with a carcinogenic skin treatment, according to a new study.
A new study suggests that humans, not vermin, spread the Black Death, and that the disease may not have been bubonic plague after all.
Told he wouldn’t live past 50, the oldest known American survivor of the brutal Bataan Death March during World War II, died Sunday at 105.
