The evolution of the nearly indestructible water bears is nearly completely unknown
History


Ancient humans were cassowary farmers

A new study suggests that thousands of years ago, people tended to these large birds the way we now tend to chickens


Fossilized human footprints are the oldest ever found in North America

This discovery makes it even clearer that humans were in the Americas much earlier than long believed


Wall of ice towers over Scottish town in Ice Age recreation

A new video shows the massive glacier that shaped modern Scotland during the last Ice Age


Meet Ulughbegsaurus, a mysterious top dinosaur predator

In its time, this Cretaceous carnivore was bigger than the area’s species of tyrannosaur


Meet a walking whale ancestor with a deadly name

Phiomicetus anubis was recently found in Egypt and is named for the ancient Egyptian god of death