Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

Before Ireland became the land of heroic warriors, shining gods, and legendary kings, it belonged to far older beings. They ...

Think you know Europe? You’ve ticked off Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and maybe even Amsterdam. That’s fantastic, truly. Those ...

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

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When a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity, an international ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

Poet-architect Nail Çakırhan preserved Akyaka, a village in Turkey’s southwestern Anatolia, by reviving traditional architecture and pushing back on the concrete development reshaping much of the ...

In celebration of World Walrus Day, National Museum of Natural History director Kirk Johnson talks about his new documentary ...

The machine learning model also revealed only semi-terrestrial habitats for mesosaurs, a group of marine reptiles from 290 million years ago, but fully aquatic habitats for species of ichthyosaurs and ...

An active underwater volcano off Canada's coast has revealed a vibrant deep-sea habitat, teeming with hundreds of thousands ...

The Narmada Parikrama is a sacred Indian pilgrimage. Devotees walk the Narmada River's banks for months. The journey begins ...