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Footprints found in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging everything we thought we knew about the first humans in North ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ever to ...

Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge - up to 4 tons - and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists believed ...

They’re seeing what no human has seen before. The first civilian astronauts to orbit Earth’s polar region revealed the breathtaking view of the gleaming “pure white” tundra in the first-ever video ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...