A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

A small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.

Researchers believe the ax dates to between 1400 B.C.E. and 1275 B.C.E. and is a relic of the Bronze Age, when humans started ...

Stacker counts down the 50 best season finales in TV history, a list chock full of sentimental gangsters and mischievous ...

Fossil jaws reveal giant prehistoric octopuses may have ruled ancient oceans as powerful apex predators during the Cretaceous ...

The park exists within Shawnee National Forest, which means no entrance fee required. You can explore and feel like you’ve ...

Excavation of the ancient city of Juliopolis has uncovered evidence that it was a significant power-center for centuries. Located in modern-day Turkey, the city is now mostly submerged beneath a dam ...

Ancient Roman board game stumped experts for decades – until AI played A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for ...

Genetic material preserved in ancient grape seeds reveals when, and how, humans meddled with wine grapes. By Rebecca Dzombak Humans have been drinking wine for thousands of years. Paintings from ...