Maritime archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society Tamara Thomsen, recounts a day of scuba diving in Lake Mendota ...

A newly identified sponge order, Vilesida, produces sterols linked to the oldest-known animal biomarkers, supporting the idea ...

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Matthew Gregg was walking Charlie Brown, his German shorthaired pointer, when the dog discovered a fossil among the beach ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This remarkable discovery sheds new light on Egypt’s buried past and its sacred ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

The discovery of a new tektite-strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact—but geologists have yet to find the crater.