Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a ...

We all have those weeks where the calendar feels like it is mocking us and the laundry pile has developed its own ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? launched the ancient astronaut movement and sold ...

Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Däniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that humanity owes much of its development to the intervention of ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

These suspected caves could be gateways to Mars’ past, and to any future human presence.