The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

Researchers have gained new insights into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic Land Bridge from ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on the menu. Whether or not this mysterious form of life still exists or went ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

British museum fossils, misidentified for over a century, are now known to be ancient coelacanth fish. This discovery dramatically increases the number of known specimens from the British Triassic ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient wine production center near a castle in Turkey — and it’s believed to date back ...

In new research, scientists report signs of a past methane cycle shift during the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, a rapid ...

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...