Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable testament to ancient global connections in Egypt's famed Valley of the Kings. Around 30 inscriptions written in ancient Indian languages have been identified ...

Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

These North Carolina museums are dedicated to things so weird you'll think someone's pranking you until you walk inside and see it's real.

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...

The Colosseum in ancient Rome had 50,000 spectators, the roar of the crowd, and… a snack break? Yep, the Romans didn’t just ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Authorities dated the footprints back to the early first century A.D. — the “time of Boudicca, Jesus and the height of the ...

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's bronze age.