From the caves of Ice Age France to the stone enclosures of southeastern Turkey, a recurring tradition of human animal hybrids hints at trance, costume, and shamanic journeys at the dawn of culture.

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A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

Saxophonist Kate Olson is releasing "So It Goes" in January, her first full-length studio album under her own name.

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sheds millions of tons of water as it leaves our solar system. New radio scans find no signs of ...

USAF Sergeant James W Penniston claimed a cryptic code was telepathically downloaded into his mind after touching an ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...