The first farm in eastern North America has been discovered, and surprisingly, it may have been started more as a luxury than a necessity, scientists say.

Puppy skeletons in pots and dogs found buried in house foundations are shedding light on mysterious pagan customs not found in written records from the era, researchers say.

A stream of gamma rays aimed at Earth may have caused a mass die-off 440 million years ago, according to a new paper that says a similar celestial catastrophe could happen again.

Researchers may have finally come face-to-face with the real—and slightly wrinkled—face of Nefertiti, thanks to new CT scans of the iconic 3,300-year-old sculpture of the Egyptian queen.

The discovery of the oldest known infant born with a skull deformity hints that, contrary to popular belief, early humans might not have immediately abandoned or killed their abnormal offspring.

A sword guard, tiny gold pieces, and a coin are among newfound artifacts from a shipwreck off North Carolina. The discoveries add to evidence that the ship belonged to the pirate Blackbeard.

For centuries, it's been rumored the Knights of Malta built an underground city beneath the Mediterranean island country. A new discovery gets closer to the truth.

Recent evidence that Druids committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice—perhaps on a massive scale—add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.

It's about as unlikely as capturing a "fossil sneeze," one researcher noted. But the soft bodies of 95-million-year-old octopuses were found preserved in Lebanese rocks.

The 505-million-year-old sea creature, which sports a giant shield protruding from its head, has been fully pieced together a hundred years after its discovery.

A 130-million-year-old fossil is the first known example of a feathered dinosaur belonging to the group that includes Triceratops and Stegosaurus, a new study says.

Just down the road from the local Starbucks, a trove of 95-million-year-old dinosaurs, sharks, and other prehistoric beasts—and their feces—have been unearthed in one of Texas's biggest cities.

North America's newest dinosaur had the makings of a monster: razor-sharp claws, a runner's body, and a Velociraptor connection. If only it'd been bigger than a chicken.

Struggling in mud 90 million years ago, 25 young dinosaurs died together, leaving unique evidence that dinosaur "teens" traveled in herds, a new study says.

A tooth-studded, four-million-year-old fossil discovered in Peru has taken some of the bite out of the great white shark's supposedly menacing ancestry, a new study finds.