Archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fire pit in the Czech Republic that would been used over 30,000 years ago t...
Ancient mammals such as the ancestors of today's rhinos and tapirs that lived in the lands above the Arctic Circle 53 mi...
Scientists at the University of Leeds have discovered a previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that would have led t...
Thousands of teeth examined from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology have revealed that ancient Native Americans...
The oldest known human hairs have been discovered inside the fossil of ancient hyena dung unearthed in a Chilean cemeter...
Scientists have succeeded in extracting proteins and microstructures from an 80 million-year-old dinosaur bone, demonstr...
Scientists believe a huge wave would have smash in to what is now New York City over 2300 years ago. Studies in to sedim...
NASA's Messenger spacecraft has taken a close up look at the planet Mercury, revealing many features that have never bee...
A rust-stained substance gushing from a glacier or 'Blood Falls' in Antarctica has provided scientists with proof that a...
Astronomers have discovered evidence that suggests between 1-3 percent of white dwarf stars are orbited by rocky bodies ...
Three sites in Egypt will be excavated starting next week in an attempt to solve one of ancient Egypt's most enduring my...
From the famed tomb of King Tutanhkamun to the finding of an artificial toe near Thebes, Egpyt has provided us with some...
Archeologists have identified the skeleton of ancient Egyptian Queen Cleopatra's younger sister, who was murdered on the...
A vast underground canal system built by the ancient Romans has been found that runs through over 100 kilometers of ston...
Ancient human fossils from China known as the 'Peking Man' fossils have turned out to be 200,000 years older than had be...
Mystery continues to surround the discovery of unusual elongated skulls of the ancients - how did these anomalous skull ...
Attempts to compare the DNA of the remains of an ancient polar bear found in a cave in Scotland with that of modern pola...
Scientists have warned that 'dark comets' could pose a threat to the Earth and that we won't be able to detect them. A c...
Using a hospital scanner scientists have been able to peer inside the coffin of ancient Egyptian priestess Meresamun, gi...
A new study suggests that the biblical story of Noah's Ark may have been spurred by a much smaller flood that occured so...