The site is widely identified with the ancient village of Bet Zecharia, where the Seleucid army and the forces of Judah ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...

Sixty-two years after the the publication of the beloved holiday picture book 'Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree,' a never-before ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

The prints, likely left by herds of migrating theropods 70 million years ago, make the Carreras Pampa tracksite the largest ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...