Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...

A stunning new discovery suggests sponges, and animals, existed 100 million years earlier than we ever imagined.

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

FRENCH marine archaeologists have uncovered a colossal Stone Age wall off the coast of Brittany – and they believe it could ...

Sixty-two years after the the publication of the beloved holiday picture book 'Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree,' a never-before ...