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'This is complete nonsense': Scientists rail against 'alien' bodies shown before Mexican congress
Scientists blast claims of two 'alien' bodies that a journalist presented to Mexico's congress.
What's the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas?
Previously, researchers thought that humans arrived in North America 13,000 years ago, but now they're finding much older evidence.
Humans were in South America at least 25,000 years ago, giant sloth bone pendants reveal
Humans were living in Brazil earlier than previously thought, prehistoric sloth-bone pendants suggest.
AI identifies 3 more 'Nazca Lines' figures in Peru
The deep-learning system is 21 times faster than a human at finding ancient "geoglyphs" in aerial photographs of Peru's Nazca Desert.
When did the Isthmus of Panama form between North and South America?
The linkage of the Americas had outsize impacts globally, and its controversial timing has similarly large implications for science.
Some of the 1st ice age humans who ventured into Americas came from China, DNA study suggests
The first wave of humans into the Americas during the last ice age may have hailed partly from northern China, according to a DNA study of ancient and modern Indigenous people.
Scientists discovered a 2,200-year-old condor poop pile in the Andes. Here's what it told them.
Scientists dug into a 2,200-year-old pile of Andean condor poop to study the species’ diet and changes in habitat.
Ancient marsupial sabertooth had eyes like no other mammal predator
The wide-set eyes and exaggeratingly long teeth likely helped Thylacosmilus atrox become a successful hunter.
