A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been ...

Ancient Rome achieved urban milestones centuries ahead of its time, with innovations like shopping malls, public welfare, and ...

Scientists from Northwestern University and McGill University have made a discovery that challenges existing theories about ...

Archaeologists working in Luxor, Egypt, recently made several discoveries in the area around Deir al-Bahari (also spelled ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Archaeologists believe they’ve fully excavated eight rooms carved from stone, which were used for ritual practices during the ...

The sun stones correspond with the decline of the so-called Funnel Beaker tradition in European Neolithic culture, or the era ...

Egypt holds the distinction of being one of the cradles of the water clock, with some of the earliest examples originating ...