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A lot has changed over 1.8 million years, but perhaps not the tendency of hominids to favor their right hand.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been surveying strange "spider-like" surface features on Mars for years, and now citizen scientists are helping the orbiter hone in on areas that require further investigation. 

Dishonesty is a slippery slope: If you behave dishonestly once, you may become more likely to do so again in the future, a new study from England shows.

The genetic codes of people living in a region of the Pacific called Melanesia have given researchers a clue: their DNA suggests the presence of an extinct hominid ancestor.

The earliest known stone inscription of the 10 Commandments is available to the highest bidder on Nov. 16, but don’t dust off your mantle at home just yet: this relic has to be shown off in public.

Bodies buried in violent, nontraditional ways in the distant past in the United States and Mexico could be evidence of blood feuds, an archaeologist argues.

A study in which two scientists claim they’ve found evidence of intelligent aliens is raising eyebrows.

An Australian man has caused squeaks of terror around the world with a video of an enormous spider carrying a mouse up the side of a refrigerator.

Sixty-eight may not seem that old, but for Snooty the manatee, it's a world record. Snooty is now the world's oldest manatee living in captivity, the Guinness World Records recently announced.

Scientists have discovered a rare new species of millipede, and if this leggy insect wore shoes, it would need to buy over 200 pairs of them.

The university says 50-year old Gordon Hamilton died Saturday when the snowmobile he was riding hit a crevasse and he fell 100 feet.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," wrote William Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II—or was it Christopher Marlowe?

It's still 10 months away, but sky gazers are already bursting with excitement—and booking vacations—over what is predicted to be "one of the most spectacular and widely accessible solar shows of our lifetime," per Mother Nature Network.

Europe's ExoMars lander apparently crashed on the Red Planet, and an orbiting NASA spacecraft has spotted its grave, European Space Agency officials said.

A corroded iron key to a locker on the Titanic has sold at auction for $104,000.

Archaeologists say they've found evidence of a battlefield from the Roman emperor Titus' siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

Archaeologists say they've found evidence of a battlefield from the Roman emperor Titus' siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

Scientists claim 170 mph ‘air bombs’ capable of downing planes and ships could unlock mystery of notorious stretch of sea

Astronomers have produced an image of the Milky Way by mapping the element hydrogen, and it’s a beauty.

Construction workers fixing up a German castle may have stumbled across the remains of a Swedish count murdered more than 322 years ago for romancing the wife of the man who would become King George I of Britain, Motherboard reports.