A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

State Jim Crow laws created separate facilities for Black Americans. (Photo: "At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina." (Jack Delano, 1940. U.S. Library of Congress.) Tati King and Toni Johnson ...

A search team has discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale more than 150 years ago. Ice floes on Lake Michigan are seen during a cold day, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. When Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in 1876, few could have predicted what would grow from that moment: A company that ...

Temperatures in Denver hit 61 degrees on March 13, 1876, and that night the first rain of the year fell, though it soon turned back to snow. The Rocky Mountain News reported the first “centennial rain ...

“In 1969 the California Board of Education issued new guidelines for the biology curriculum of the state’s public schools. The guidelines included a statement that the Book of Genesis presents a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If one motif has taken the dish-enthusiast community by storm, it’s the humble cabbage. Ever since ...

1876. MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE EVER UTTERED OVER A TELEPHONE CALL. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT THE CORNER OF AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND THE HARRISON AVENUE ...

I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons behind them are still the same. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology ...

These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies. An MIT historian of science and technology takes us back to Alexander Graham Bell's famous first telephone call on March 10, 1876. These ...