A meteorite that crashed into a home in New Jersey in 2024 has become one of the most valuable specimens for scientists ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

Jaw fragments from Egypt’s Wadi Moghra reveal Masripithecus, a 17-million-year-old ape that may shift early-ape evolution from East Africa to North Africa.

Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland ...

Learn how a man discovered a 390-million-year-old meteorite impact crater in Quebec, Canada while planning for a camping trip ...

In school, history often comes packaged in tidy chapters and predictable timelines, but let’s be honest, real history is anything but neat. It’s messy, dramatic, filled with surprises, and often way ...

The dust-covered relic emerges from the earth, promising to rewrite history books and challenge everything we thought we knew about the past. For centuries, archaeological discoveries have captured ...

"There is of course a limit to DNA preservation in Africa, but what it is, is not clear." ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 2,300-year-old treasures in an ancient Greek tomb near Mangalia, Romania, including gold wreaths and ornaments.

A mysterious discovery buried in California’s Mojave Desert could shake up what experts think they know about prehistoric art ...

The tombs’ rich artifacts make them exceptional in the Mediterranean region’s archaeological history.

The fossilized skull belonged to a juvenile Gorgosaurus, a close relative of T. rex that lived about 76 million years ago ...