Mounted Mammuthus primigenius skeleton on display at the Field Museum of Natural History. Credit: – CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons....

Mounted Mammuthus primigenius skeleton on display at the Field Museum of Natural History. Credit: – CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons....

A clay model from Mesopotamia shows an evidence of the first human kiss in recorded history. Credit: The British Museum / CC BY-SA 4.0 The first kiss...

A clay model from Mesopotamia shows an evidence of the first human kiss in recorded history. Credit: The British Museum / CC BY-SA 4.0 The first kiss...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking way to measure time in the distant past—by dating fossilized dinosaur eggshells. This new technique...

The past lives again at an unusual immersive hotel housed in the cave dwellings of Italy’s oldest city, once ruled by ancient Greece

A major international study involving 23,000 people has found concerning evidence about the impact of a range of common, everyday medications on the...

A major international study involving 23,000 people has found concerning evidence about the impact of a range of common, everyday medications on the...

Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago, a finding that for the first time...