After analyzing bone fragments found in millennia-old trash piles, researchers say that people may have brought livestock ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely ...

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers non-invasively and precisely directed ultrasound beams to target a location ...

At least some of the barrels contain caustic alkaline waste, which has made the surrounding ecosystems inhospitable to most life forms, a new study suggests ...

Christie’s is shutting down its digital art division—a significant pivot for the auction house, which helped ignite the art ...

Many ancient records detail Romans’ use of brown bears in entertainment, according to Antiquity. They were apparently trained ...

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help ...

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health ...