Researchers in Texas have uncovered ancient murals hidden in the limestone shelters of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Painted ...

At an archaeological site in central Argentina, scientists have uncovered traces of a human lineage that had gone unnoticed ...

This mouth structure wasn’t an evolutionary relic, however. It was actually a specialized feature that allowed them to thrive. It now appears Dunkleosteus boasted a head and jaw more reminiscent of a ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Continued archaeological exploration at Tell Abraq in modern-day United Arab Emirates uncovered a history of cultural trade ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...