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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Ancient Greek records contain stories about Greek alphabet origins. Could the Greek alphabet actually have an Egyptian ...