Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

The murder of 14-year-old Emily Pike, a San Carlos Apache native, remains unsolved one year after her disappearance. Pike's ...

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical ...

Contributors from Taiwan and the mainland examined the touchy issue of relations between the two. The recent earthquake that devastated many areas of Taiwan prompted international messages of sympathy ...

(RNS) — Since 1989, through special government permissions, about 4,000 Bnei Menashe have been able to make aliyah, but just as many people have spent years, in some cases generations, attempting to ...

In a small stretch of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil lives a bright-orange species of frog that’s new to science, researchers report in a recent study. The miniature amphibian measures just ...

‘Brachycephalus lulai’ is a tiny pumpkin toadlet measuring less than 14 millimeters in length. It is sitting on a pencil tip for scale. Photo by Luiz Fernando Ribeiro. Get the Popular Science daily ...

Deep in the cloud-covered mountains of southern Brazil, researchers have identified a new species of pumpkin toadlet — a group of tiny, brightly colored frogs known for their bold hues. It’s been ...

A painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens sold for 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction Sunday in Versailles, France. The artwork, depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, was ...