Across the sandstone cliffs of eastern Utah, rock art panels bearing large-eyed, elaborately adorned humanoid figures ...

A treasure trove of prehistoric squirrel poop is painting a picture of a lost world. Some of the oldest DNA ever discovered ...

The remains of Ötzi the Iceman, who died 5,300 years ago, contain ancient microbes that are still alive, new research finds.

Debris is still raining down on Earth more than 100 million years after the giant cosmic explosion that created it. A study ...

The collection of artifacts represents the layered history of Ehnasiya, an ancient Egyptian capital that became the Roman ...

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after ...

Frozen deep beneath the Yukon’s permafrost, small pellets left behind by ancient ground squirrels have preserved a record of ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including ...

The Egyptians Used an Ancient Version of Wite-Out to Correct Their Mistakes on This Papyrus Scroll 3,300 Years Ago An ancient ...

A representation of the underground imaging used in the study. (Edward Garnero and Mingming Li/Arizona State University) The ...

Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of ...

The word "aphrodisiac" itself, which refers to foods that aid in sexual function, comes from the ancient Greek goddess of ...