Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...

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In 1996, after gaining permission from the Greek government, Hale and De Boer made their first expedition to Delphi. They ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

Have you ever wondered why many ancient temples are built in very specific locations? Across different civilizations, temples are often found on hilltops, near rivers, or at places believed to hold ...

Twice a year at dawn, a shaft of sunlight cuts through Abu Simbel’s Great Temple to light three statues—and in doing so turns a tourist spectacle into evidence of ancient astronomical engineering ...