Turns out, we can learn a lot about history and the age of things with a thing called Carbon Dating. Carbon dating has ...

From Neanderthals to early Homo species, evidence of cancer stretches far into prehistory. Fossilized bones show tumors and ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest ...

Welcome to Derry reveals The Galloo, the ancient entity caged by 13 sacred pillars. Hallorann’s Shine uncovers King’s deepest ...

A 14-year-old boy from central China has turned his bedroom into a small museum dedicated to ancient Chinese history and ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

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 ...

The lost city of Atlantis may never be found, but in Turkey you'll discover two underwater cities to snorkel and dive in, ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...