An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

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Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Scientists have shed light on the true origins of the so-called "first black Briton". The skeletal remains - dating from ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...