Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...

A remarkable discovery in the jungles of Mexico reveals the long-lost city of the Lacandon Maya—Sak-Bahlán, known as the 'land of the white jaguar.' Thanks to a 327-year-old letter and advanced route ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The ...

Rising abruptly from the lush, untamed jungles of southeastern Venezuela, Mount Roraima is a geological behemoth that defies ...

Neanderthals practiced a surprisingly advanced form of dentistry, detecting tooth decay and removing it with stone drills.

The remains of a furnace used for heat-treating stone tools at the Xinmiaozhuang site Photo: Screenshot of a report released ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...