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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Meditation has been a common feature for eons in religious traditions from Buddhism to yoga, which originated as an ancient ...

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

Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

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