Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Archaeologists in Cyprus uncovered rare fortifications, palace remains, and preserved monuments at ancient Palaepaphos.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient labyrinth in India, revealing links to Roman trade routes and shedding light on early ...