A 2,000-year-old marble sculpture slated for auction later this month is more than a well-preserved piece of artistic history ...

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...

New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of ...

Artifacts from 9,000 feet up are rewriting what we thought we knew about the earliest inhabitants of North America.

Researchers found the structure's remains, as well as fragments of statues, while excavating near the Kapersburg fort, an ...

The Levant was a busy corridor around a million years ago. Long before it became a place where modern humans and Neanderthals ...

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

Ancient marine reptiles may have swum to shore to vomit, with Jurassic fossils offering a unique glimpse into behaviour that has parallels in living seals and marine crocodiles. More than 20 ...

Was it a dice workshop, a healing ritual, or the Roman Empire’s secret casino?

Seismic data captured by ocean-bottom instruments have revealed "fossilized" traces of mantle flow beneath the Pacific ...

Of the four species Formoso examined, Mosasaurus and Plotosaurus probably preferred maintaining a comparatively steady speed ...