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Get the Popular Science Daily Newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries and DIY tips sent on weekdays. Despite digging for centuries, paleontologists are…

“The Wari example comes about 1,000 years later, and so is the Tiwanak example. So it may not be surprising…

Get the Popular Science Daily Newsletter The richly decorated cemetery where ancient women were recently discovered helps archaeologists better understand…

Get the Popular Science Daily Newsletter Despite the misinformation about sunscreen, you may be See onlineancient humans faced problems from…

“Only the atoms and the blanks are real,” said the Democrats of ancient Greek philosophers. “Well, in fact, it’s a…

It is also when someone buried three babies in the courtyard, each one near the corner of the altar (the…

Get the Popular Science Daily Newsletter Indeed, it has been virtually heated debate since the fall itself that caused the…

Fossil herds discovered in Wyoming offer some of the best examples of ancient species of crocodile-sized amphibians to date. But…

The royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey, about 4,800 years ago, appears to complicate existing theories about how some Bronze…

Amber-wrapped prehistoric insects reveal a terrifying evolutionary road that was stuck after the mid-Cretaceous period. After examining specimens from around…