Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

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

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...