A 500-year-old map that makes the first known reference to "America" has some researchers scratching their heads about how the mapmaker sketched out the world.
European bears didn't need to retreat south during the last Ice Age, DNA evidence has found—hunting, and not climate, may be to blame for their now-fragmented habitats.
The intricately carved vase is giving experts a glimpse into ancient rituals that included food offerings, chocolate enemas, and hallucinations induced by vomiting.
Researchers in Jerusalem stumbled on 5th-century B.C. artifacts that suggest a nearby wall is the same one described in the Book of Nehemiah, one archeologist says.
Seborga considers itself independent of Italy, with its own currency, stamps, and prince. Some also claim it holds a biblical, Da Vinci Code-type secret.
Genetic clues suggest that Carolina Gold, one of the most lucrative rice varieties in early American history, arrived in the colonies with slaves from West Africa.
Farmers recently attacked police who were looking to seize dinosaur bones, setting up the first court test of a fossil-trade ban targeting "peasant paleontologists."
Wildlife conservationists in India have devised a humane way to prevent wild elephant attacks on settlements and crops -- building fences smeared with the world's hottest chili.
