Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

In the journal Nature, researchers announced that they had discovered the identity of the Roman matron depicted in a marble statue found in Chersonesos Taurica, an ancient Roman colony along the ...

A new climbing reptile from the Jurassic period, Sphenodraco scandentis, has been discovered following the reconstruction of ...

The discovery of suspected “alien mummies” in Peru has generated fresh excitement after a lawyer declared that their fingerprints are “not human”. Two of the humanoid figures were unveiled to the ...

Astronomy news today is packed with discoveries about the Sun, including tiny solar loops and hidden engines that drive solar ...

Nestled in the misty Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia, where winding roads disappear into forests thick enough to hide all manner of secrets, sits a wooden building that houses one of America’s ...

For instance, during the Qin dynasty in ancient China, it is claimed that soldiers collected the heads of their dead enemies, and tied them around their waists. This was intended to terrorise and ...

We explain how the tubular eyes of the telescopefish actually work and how these eyes help them survive at great depths.

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Iconic styles revisited via opulent twists, ‘90s minimalism reinterpreted with textural interplays and an overall heightened ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...