One factor jumped out: the sex of the human. Cats were much more vocal when the returning person was male. The researchers, ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

Researchers in Texas have uncovered ancient murals hidden in the limestone shelters of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Painted ...

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...

A new study published in Nature reveals that a distinct group of early humans lived in this region for at least 8,000 years, ...

The verdict? The vaccine is the safest bet by far. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation caused by the vaccine ...

Flag Fen Archaeology Park sits in the midst of a unique Bronze Age landscape east of Peterborough, in England. Some 3,500 ...

Menopause is a developmental and neurological transition that opens the door to new forms of insight, stability, and ...

According to a new study from neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge, the human brain’s wiring reorganizes itself not ...

Walk along the banks of Issaquah Creek in Washington state during the autumn, and you can hear the river before you see it.

Forty-one millennia ago, deep inside a Belgian cave, Neanderthals left behind a disturbing legacy. Mixed in with the ...

Archaeologists working at Naachtun, a Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, have uncovered a unique fifth-century patolli ...