2+ hour, 43+ min ago  (524+ words) Last year, National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson was in Corral Bluffs on the outskirts of Colorado Springs, searching for minuscule fossils. His tool of choice? A unique filtering machine called a "bubbler." "To find these three teeny tiny teeth we…...

5+ day, 33+ min ago  (758+ words) When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens. Neanderthal men may have had a thing for modern human women, or perhaps Neanderthal men had something human women couldn't resist." Scientists…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (346+ words) Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote " and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic craters and villages of rock-hewn moai. Through dawn's half-light comes the sound of pounding waves " and then I see…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (219+ words) Iguanas are falling out of trees in Florida'here's why The world's oldest rock art discovered in Indonesia These are the best wellness experiences in the world for 2026 The science of why chia seeds are a superfood Artemis II: An inside look…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (443+ words) Nora doesn't have the name recognition'or crowds'of Pompeii. But the well-preserved coastal settlement offers travelers a rare glimpse into the lives of the pirates, Vandals, Romans, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians who once laid claim to it. Perched at the edge of…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (1025+ words) New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages. "So cool," Nielsen said, turning the horse to catch the light in the basement of the Greenland National Museum…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (170+ words) The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. Listen to this story here (Is this the world's oldest alphabet?) The interiors…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (358+ words) Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer." In our unprecedented era of human-made stuff,"Gabbott"and"Zalasiewicz"ask a provocative question:"Where will it all go?At the heart of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (982+ words) The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw'and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia. On Muna, a tropical island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, lies a cave decorated with prehistoric paintings. Locals call it Liang…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (548+ words) Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ideas for bringing it back. Finding the cheetah remains "was a surprise," says Carlos Duarte, an ecologist at King Abdullah…...