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

High in the Absaroka Mountains, where ancient ice still clings to the high country, two small wooden bows emerged from the ...

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

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

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There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could be remnants of a ...

Consuming whole animals was not unusual for ancient cultures, but researchers say that a whole snake inside fossilized fecal matter had never been found before.

( NewsNation) — Researchers have made an educated guess about when kissing began, dating the practice at somewhere between 17 million and 21.5 million years ago.