(Edsel Querini/iStock/Getty Images) For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on ...

When we imagine prehistoric life, we often picture early humans living among every ancient creature that ever existed. In reality, many animals appeared long after early humans had disappeared or ...

Some people have such bizarre genetics and medical histories that they feel like walking and talking statistical anomalies.

Human beings are a panicky species – quick to fear and slow to understand. Over much of our evolutionary history, this ingrained alarm served us well, keeping us alive in a wild world brimming with ...

Most of us walk around every day thinking we know exactly how our own skin and bones operate, but the reality is that the human body is a collection of high-tech systems that would make a sci-fi ...

A Burning Man tribute to the last remnants of humanity, a buried Statue of Liberty, depicted in the 1967 science fiction film, Planet of the Apes. Courtesy of Flickr user Brian J. Matis Poof! The ...