The village was home to the ancient British monument's builders and the site of mass rituals that may link Stonehenge with another "henge," archaeologists announced.
A tiny hobbit-like human that lived 18,000 years ago was a member of its own species, not a modern human with a brain disorder, according to a new study of the hominin's skull.
Strange specimens of natural glass found in the Egyptian desert are products of a meteorite slamming into Earth between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago, scientists say.
Field crickets on the island of Kauai rapidly evolved to have femalelike wings to avoid a parasitic fly that finds its prey by sound, new research reveals.
A five-year study of South Carolina pine forests offers proof of the widely practiced but controversial theory that corridors linking nature reserves help species diversity.
Go beneath the surface with a pair of Antarctic divers and witness some of the world's oddest creatures: fish with "antifreeze," thousand-year-old sponges—perhaps even a new species.
If these dinosaurs made it past toddlerhood, they were apparently pretty safe until age 14. Then their death rates shot up dramatically, a new study says.
A remarkably preserved and elaborately tattooed mummy of a young woman has been found deep inside a mud-brick pyramid, a find experts are comparing to the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Includes video.
Giant tortoises might have survived a lava flow in the past, but today conservationists prefer not to take chances. Watch as some of the rare reptiles are airlifted out of reach of an erupting volcano.
A recent excavation in North Carolina has cast new light on how the Catawba Indians lived two centuries ago, and how they built an economy by trading with white settlers.
