Immense volcanic activity helped the dinosaurs rise to prominence some 200 million years ago, a study suggests. Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrates on land for some...
Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth’s rocky neighbor. Now researchers...
The creature, nicknamed “Woman X” for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans...
Long before a ‘hobbit’ species of human lived on Indonesia’s Flores island, other human-like creatures colonised the area. That much was clear. But scientists have now...
A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks have been found on the bed of the Baltic Sea; some of them are thought to up to 1,000 years old,...
Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that was closely related to the Velociraptor. The 1.8m-long predator was a dromaeosaurid – a family of theropod...
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered an ancient statue of the pharaonic deity of wisdom, Thoth, in the shape of a baboon, the council of antiquities said in...
The brain was found mummified inside a wooden coffin in boggy soil close to Quimper, in Brittany, before being placed in formalin solution. The boy, who...
An 80-ton piece of mountain in the middle of New Mexico’s wilderness engraved with an abbreviated version of the Ten Commandments in Hebrew that has had...
A hen laid an egg in the form of number eight in Shijiazhuang, China. The owner of the bird, Dong, said several neighbors are going to...