A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté vegetables, add a nice crisp to some noodles, and more. Humans have been using olive ...

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

Also, what the heck is a magnetofossil?

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Kyoto researchers found that, given two weeks at room temperature, a familiar snack can nudge water into natural fermentation — no cultured yeast involved.

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...