A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

New research has found that ancient Greece may harbor the oldest known evidence of lead pollution. After analyzing sediment ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

Researchers pieced the stone together like a jigsaw puzzle from various fragments found at an ancient burial ground.

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Georgia, known for its rich history, has one of the oldest high schools in the nation. Here's where it is and when it was ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...