Far from the baby-cheeked cherubs of Renaissance art, they were fiery beings who inspired fear.

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Social media users praised the scene in the viral clip, with one saying "it's like shopping and sightseeing" at same time.

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

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.

Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.