They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance 12,000 years ago.

The world's oldest octopus fossil is no longer an octopus. A new study by researchers says the 300-million-year-old creature ...

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New research casts doubt on early humans arriving in the Americas, challenging a Chilean site dated for decades to 14,500 ...

Hidden in Florida, this state park features a ferry-only island, scenic trails, and an ancient shell mound over 5,000 years ...

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More than half of the 2,400 miles of Route 66 pass through Indian Country. And much of it follows ancient Native American ...

Each neighborhood in Pittsburgh has its own distinct personality and attractions. Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Mount ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

You probably have a member of your family that you're not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom's ...

Surrounded by human skulls, the artifact was uncovered at the site of the Toltec people's capital in central Mexico ahead of ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...