Head lice picked from thousand-year-old Peruvian mummies suggest the pesky parasites accompanied modern humans on their first migration out of Africa, a new study says.
New fossils help explain why there are two very similar—but very distant—populations of crayfish on Earth, one in the Southern Hemisphere, the other in the north.
A hundred years older than the first known European oil paintings, the newfound Afghan artworks were discovered where the Taliban destroyed giant Buddhas.
An exceptionally well preserved fossil reptile found in Brazil is a likely "missing link" between dino-era crocs and their modern counterparts, experts say.
The newfound species suggests that the marine creatures have existed for at least a hundred million years longer than previously believed, a new study says.
More than 20,000 artifacts and pieces of ancient gold jewelry were discovered in 1979 in Afghanistan. Mysterious "key holders" pledged their lives to protect the treasure from plunderers. Did they succeed?
