Staffers at the Dorchester County Historical Society in Maryland were baffled by the unusual machine, so they asked the ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape. An 80 ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

Since its discovery in 1993, the Altamura Man, dating back at least 130,000 years, has continued to captivate scientists and ...

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.

THE MYSTERY behind a 2,500-year-old skeleton formed of bones belonging to different people has finally been solved after it ...

Scientists have finally solved a long-standing lunar mystery by determining the age of one of the Moon's largest impact ...

Archaeologists have unravelled the mystery of a strange skeleton from Belgium consisting of bones from five people who lived 2,500 years apart. The skeleton, unearthed in the 1970s at a Roman cemetery ...