A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.

Half Moon Pond State Park in Benson, Vermont is precisely that kind of magical realm—a place where reality seems enhanced, ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...