People who lived throughout Europe during the Ice Age may have practiced ritual cannibalism. Between 23,500 and 13,500 years ago, these hunters left traces of their culture, known as Magdalenian, on ...

I set out a primitive fish trap expecting small fish or maybe nothing at all—but what showed up inside shocked me. Bright little axolotls were swimming around like they owned the place. Seeing them in ...

About 45,000 years ago, in a cave system in what is now Belgium, a group of Neanderthal women and children were killed and eaten. A new analysis of their bones shows that specific outsiders were ...