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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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