The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Scientists studied a mammal that lived 250 million years ago and found they had an eardrum that could detect and react to ...

A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of Marcus Aurelius.

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

The DNA uncovered a complex ancient community with a startling family secret. In a mountain cave in southern Italy, Bronze ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

The idea of ancient civilisations pioneering orthodontics is irresistible, but archaeology shows their gold dental work ...