Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable, ...

Archaeologists in China uncover 573 ancient stone fortresses, shedding light on early settlement patterns and social ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

Scientists have found proof that a parasite still troubling oysters today was already up to its old tricks nearly half a ...

Recent research has unveiled that the pesky subway mosquitoes, often encountered in underground transit systems worldwide, have evolutionary roots tracing back to ancient Mediterranean cities. This ...

Ancient Greece’s sculptures are a cornerstone of world art, studied for their lasting influence on culture and artistic ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...