Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Rare fossils from Illinois are challenging one of evolution's oldest assumptions and revealing an unexpected path taken by ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence of what could be a new ancient stone or timber circle buried underneath a Scottish ...

Narrow, worn stairs beneath the 11th-century Pembroke Castle in Wales lead into a shadowy cavern where early humans once ...

Elite Scythians such as the “Golden Man” inherited their lofty status and shared power during the Iron Age, DNA analysis ...

Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.

An international team of archaeologists reports the discovery of a previously unknown Maya city hidden beneath a millennium ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria—the gleaming wonder of the ancient world—was lost to the sea, its stones scattered across the ...

Aristotle shaped Greek philosophy, but some works attributed to him were written by Pseudo-Aristotle, extending his influence ...