Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

Researchers have described the creature as "absolutely humongous" and likely the dominant predator of its day. Find out more.

Most days you move through the world without thinking about the invisible creatures that surround you. Yet one of them, a ...

Agency says it may have found signs of life on the Red Planet Mars during a press conference about comet 3I/ATLAS ...

When most people picture Egyptian pyramids, they imagine gold treasures and mummy-filled chambers straight out of an adventure movie. The reality turns out to be far more bizarre. Archaeologists have ...

Its discovery helps illuminate a key moment in the history of life, the period that preceded the rise of the dinosaurs.” ...

The Derveni Papyrus found in Greece is of immense importance and was registered by UNESCO in 2015 as the oldest handwritten ...

Untouched by looters and sealed for centuries, the sarcophagus was found with its stone lid still fixed in place, secured by ...

Researchers detected what may be Martian lightning by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

A study of Neanderthal remains has unearthed evidence of 'light, selective' cannibalism targeting women and girls around ...