Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt's Nile Delta may have discovered a tomb or temple dating back around 2,600 years while ...

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep sea? An international team led by scientists from the Natural ...

Using carbon dating, Montana State University researchers found the clutch of 30 whitebark pine trees were between 5,440 and ...

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. Scientists even think King Tut himself may have used the substance. The findings mean opium use ...

Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Old oracle bones are telling a new story. By combining these 3,000-year-old inscriptions with modern climate models, scientists have found that powerful typhoons may have played a role in the fall of ...

While the discovery of a new tektite strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact, geologists have ...

Scientists discovered 2.3 million conserved non-coding sequences—some hundreds of millions of years old—using Conservatory, a new comparative plant genomics platform. Plant genomes often have ...

NEW YORK — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years. One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet long that could have ...

From boiling rivers in the Amazon to stone forests in China, discover 20 mysterious places around the world that continue to ...