One of the most enigmatic and mysterious temples on the surface of the planet is located in modern-day Turkey. The site, identified by...

Barely living ‘zombie’ bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth’s subsurface — 245 to...

The team of researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus...

Border Cave is a deep gash in a cliff face, high in the Lebombo Mountains of South Africa. Sheltered from the elements, the spot has...

A new, revolutionary scientific study has discovered that all modern humans were spawned from a single couple, hundreds of thousands of...

The Dead Sea or the Salt Sea was one of Cleopatra’s favourite places mainly because of its medicinal features. The sea is located between...

A new fossil reveals how a mysterious ancient insect captured its meals. The discovery depicts a 99-million-year-old encounter between a...

A local reindeer herder in Russia has come across a sensational discovery: the remains of a teenage woolly mammoth with soft tissue still...

This deformed bone is the first clear example of a malignant tumor diagnosed in a dinosaur. The partial fibula—a bone from the lower...

The universe is assumed to be approximately 13.8 billion years old, but a new study from researchers suggests it could be as much as 1.2...

The 12-billion-tonne meteor impacted the Earth's surface with the power of 47 million Hiroshima bombs. A team of scientists has recently...

Some 100 million years ago, a bee became stuck in tree resin. Trapped, without any chances of escape, it was preserved in time until...

Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive, a new study reveals. When brought back to the lab...

An ancient crocodile species could have close evolutionary ties to modern American crocs. In a new study, researchers re-examined a...

Researchers with the German Aerospace Center believe the moon is at least 85 million years younger than we thought, putting the Earth's...

For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our past can be found in...

Meet Cretodus Houghtonorum. This is the 91-million-year-old fossilized shark that was discovered entirely by chance in Kansas, taking...

Although the SARS-CoV-2 virus has sickened more than 14 million people, bats contract similar viruses all the time without experiencing...

Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico. They suggest people were living...

The rare frilled shark is considered a living fossil because evidence of its existence dates back to at least 80 million years ago....