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 ...

New clues found underneath Jezero Crater.

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

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

Researchers in France made a chilling discovery earlier this year, finding skeletons buried in a seated position during an ...

There's more evidence that water once flowed on Mars with the discovery of an ancient river delta deep below the surface.

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 ...

The ancient city of Pompeii is one of those archaeological sites that keeps on giving with one discovery after another. While ...

The skeleton is the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city of Dijon that were mysteriously buried in a seated position while facing west.

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.