An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...

Chris Key was visiting the Cumberland River from Elkhorn to fish for striped bass and walleye, but he found something much bigger. Did you know there are big, ancient fish swimming in Kentucky's water ...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...

An ancient crocodile relative that lived around 70 million years ago was probably such a formidable predator that it could have eaten medium-sized dinosaurs for breakfast. “Its large teeth had ...

Archaeologists unearthed a massive trove of gold coins in the Czech Republic, minted by a long-lost civilization — with the site described by officials as "exceptional." The discovery was announced by ...

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Ancient artifacts from a more than 2000-year-old city were lifted from the sea off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt, confirming that the site was once a complete city. The pieces, including statues ...

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Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

The "Star Trek" universe is filled with interstellar menaces prowling the spaceways: there's the cloaked Klingon Birds of Prey; that awesome Reman battlecruiser, the Scimitar; a weaponized Romulan ...