A chance discovery of two separated fossils has unlocked the secrets of Sphenodraco scandentis, an ancient tree-climbing ...

A new DNA analysis of a 4,400-year-old skeleton from ancient Egypt has found that the individual, an elite official buried ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Archaeologists have discovered a once-bustling city with buildings that had multiple storeys, and a temple of the cobra ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

This is the fourth installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here, part ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

The discovery of a Hellenistic period mansion remains in North Macedonia indicates ties with the Ancient Greek world.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...