For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating back to around ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

Beneath the rolling hills of southern Brazil and northern Argentina, scientists have found a hidden network of large ...

Ian shares a chart that shows why the pace of discovery is speeding up so quickly, breakthroughs seem to happen daily.

Many aspects of animals that people find beautiful evolved to be attractive to the animals themselves. A new study hints at a common aspect of perception that dates back hundreds of millions of years.

(Figure8Photos/Getty Images) The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not. Rather than a gradual transition, your life staggers and lurches through the rapid growth of ...

The oldest known joke in known human history is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" In fact, it's a fart joke that can be traced all the way back to ...

After a year and a half of La Niña conditions, it looks like we could end up with an El Niño later this year. And early ...

A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.

Billionaire investor Justin Ishbia is on the verge of buying an Amtrak rail yard southwest of downtown and just across the Chicago River from The 78, a new mixed-use development still eyed as a ...