Something funky this way comes. All over the world, deep inside dark forests, hunters tip toe in secret for a wildly expensive delicacy: truffles. The aromatic fungi grows underground, tethered to ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Fry bread is a popular food in many Native communities — but has a dark history. One student talks to her grandmother about its complicated place in Native culture.

Communities across Michigan carry traces of the state's Indigenous roots and contemporary cultures — and Native-owned institutions beckon visitors to explore that history. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat domestication and dispersal into Europe and beyond, aside from the common ...

One of the most studied people are the Native Americans, who were believed to originally have come to North America from the ...

Actress and metro Detroit native Kristen Bell’s voice is in a soon-to-be released Fox News Media project called “The Life of Jesus Podcast” – apparently to her surprise. Bell was blindsided by news ...

Ancient DNA analysis has unveiled a previously unknown group of people who resided near the land bridge connecting Asia and North America around 6,000 years ago. This discovery not only enriches our ...

The Trump administration has taken down a mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s website, outraging a number of U.S. Senators. Both Masto and U ...