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.

The early humans in China may have lived 200,000 years earlier than thought—which would put the subspecies in a food-rich place and time and could change out-of-Africa theories.

Alexei Romanov and one of his sisters were executed with their family in 1918, new evidence says, closing a case that has captivated the world for almost a century.

A newfound partial body and skull of a plague victim show her jaw forced open by a brick—a medieval exorcism technique used on suspected vampires.

Across war-shattered Afghanistan, looters and thieves have pillaged antiquities from more than 1,500 ancient sites--and now, the country's getting something back: 3.4 tons of stolen artifacts confiscated in the United Kingdom have returned to Kabul.

A 3,000-year-old tomb complex—including cult chapels and the remains of a noblewoman—has been uncovered in Egypt, archaeologists announced.

People on the steppes of what is now Kazakhstan were the first to domesticate horses and even used them for milk, new evidence suggests.

The first known fossilized handprints of a two-legged meat-eater suggest that dinosaurs like T. rex had palms that faced each other, a posture seen in modern bird wings.

A rare find—the brain of a distant shark ancestor—offers insight into how gray matter evolved, a new study says. With video.

A rare, well-preserved fossil of a pelagornithid's head has been unearthed in Peru, researchers said. The bird had toothlike projections on its beak, perhaps to help it catch prey.

Thirteen thousand years ago humans may have hunted down camels across what is now the city of Boulder, a new analysis of Ice Age tools suggests.

1.5-million-year-old prints found in Kenya suggest that the human ancestors who made them had a foot structure that put a spring in their steps just as modern humans have today.

An unusual stegosaur found in Portugal shows that the new dinosaur evolved a neck much longer than those of its peers, possibly to reach taller food sources.

Some 2,000 years ago, a ship laden with marble blocks sank off the coast of modern-day Turkey. Nautical archaeologists have found the stones' source and destination.

Underwater archaeologists in Florida have discovered secrets from a time when wooly mammoths, giant sloths, and huge tortoises roamed a landscape quite different from today's sunshine state.