This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious Planet Nine, and more.

The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators of their terrestrial ecosystems, and scientists recently discovered ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

“Science is allowing us to reveal the actual lives of the victims, which is much more respectful than just using them as ...

International researchers analyzed the genetic material of casts on victims of the Vesuvius eruption. Their kinship and ...

Ancient Egypt is one of the world's most iconic civilizations, known for its awe-inspiring achievements and innovations.

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...