Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

A dinosaur fossil discovery by a researcher from The University of Texas at El Paso may expand the known range of a species ...

CUDDALORE: Ancient artefacts, including an anjanakol (a stick used by women in ancient times to apply eye kajal) and circular ...

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

The ancient Assyrians couldn’t exactly take to the phones like the IRS, making incessant calls demanding that loyal subjects ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius.

In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...

From ancient philosophers who saw the heart as the seat of the soul to modern cardiologists mapping electrical impulses, ...

An archaeological excavation in Turkey recently yielded a Roman hospital-turned-Christian sanctuary, offering new insight ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...