Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

Roughly 10,500 years ago, a teenage girl popped a piece of ancient “gum” into her mouth and started chewing. She probably had ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

From intricate windcatchers to innovative air channels, ancient engineers mastered natural cooling thousands of years before ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

Ancient Greek myths of dragons, krakens, and other legendary creatures were inspired by real animals and fossils alike.