"Well, I've always been someone more interested in the scars and the life that people carry," Angelina Jolie said.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

New CT scans reveal the last moments of the Inca children who were sacrificed and mummified about 500 years ago.

It’s time to travel back over 300 million years to the Carboniferous period, a time famous for vast rainforests on land and extraordinary life beneath the waves. Along this lakeshore, the rocks ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...