The international team of scientists used a new technique to scan rocks, finding more than 1,000 beaks of ancient cephalopods ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

Here’s why some people say they hear cracking and popping from an atmospheric event that shouldn’t be able to produce any ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Could a legendary tomb curse become a medical miracle? Scientists may have reengineered Aspergillus flavus, linked to King ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t necessarily scandalous. They were part of everyday life.

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...