Ohio’s ancient sea monster, the Dunkleosteus terrelli, is revealed in new clarity by a recent study that shows just how ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

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MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

The discovery of Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells is giving UNSW scientists new insight into the animals and ecosystems that existed millions of years ago, long before Australia separated ...

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 ...

Scientists uncover a massive 66 million year old egg in Antarctica from a prehistoric sea lizard, rewriting reptile history with stunning details on ancient ocean life.

A cauldron, chariot parts, ornate jewelry: Precious objects found in the Melsonby Hoard are shedding new light into the rituals of Iron Age Britain.

Imagine a sea monster with bone blades for teeth, lurking in ancient waters 360 million years ago.

I/Atlas isn’t the only unusual space rock to be spotted recently, as NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has spotted a possible ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...