Wig curlers, a pipe with Masonic carvings, and a half million other artifacts were also part of the discovery, which will help scholars fill in large gaps in the story of the first U.S. president's early life.

The ocean liner was found during a 1985 exploration of wrecked nuclear submarines, says oceanographer Robert Ballard, who has revealed new details of the covert mission.

Archaeologists may have finally solved the enduring puzzle of the prehistoric monuments: They are giant tombstones of the dead.

A new "Greendex" survey tracking consumer spending habits also found that the residents of the U.S. and other industrialized nations are the most wasteful.

About 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups—living apart for a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says.

A new dam in Laos might spell doom for the Mekong giant catfish, the world's largest freshwater fish, experts say.

The largest freshwater fish ever caught, the Mekong giant catfish, could face extinction if a large dam is completed in Laos, experts say. Part six of an ongoing series on megafishes.

With tiny brushes and chisels, workers in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering the nearly complete dinosaur—skin and all.

See the evidence for a new theory of tiny humans—and the stunning South Pacific setting where it was found.

Potentially new bird species that lived alongside the dinosaurs 65 million years ago are among a trove of fossils unearthed on the Chatham Islands, researchers announced.

A previously unknown squirrel-size species from Tanzania is the world's biggest elephant shrew, scientists say.

A new translation of the recently revealed Gospel of Judas contradicts the original interpretation, which depicted a Judas who did not betray Jesus.

See masterpieces form the famed "Bactrian hoard" and other artifacts that will visit the U.S. for the first time in 2008.

After surviving Soviet invaders and the Taliban, long-hidden ancient riches—including the famed "Bactrian hoard"—will tour the U.S. starting this spring.

A rat about five times the size of its city cousins and a possum described as "one of the world's smallest marsupials" were found during a recent expedition to the island of New Guinea.