Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

A violent storm swept across southern Germany some 150 million years ago, lifting two immature pterosaurs high above the ground like leaves. The fragile reptiles, just born or newly weaned, swirled ...

World-famous life-size clay soldiers discovered in a burial pit in Xian, China, plus newly discovered ancient artifacts are on display ...

An ancient asteroid impact in Australia is revealed in shards of glass created when the giant space rock collided with the ...

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia's Boodjamulla National Park.

A tiny, reptilian fossil has been excavated from layers of ancient sandstone, where it was preserved for over 240 million years – predating the dinosaurs. The little lizard-like creature pinches the ...

The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, offering early humans a path to cross over via southward island-hopping routes.

New simulations suggest globular clusters form in multiple ways and point to a mysterious new type of star system that may ...

In her search for Cleopatra's lost tomb, a National Geographic Explorer may have found a clue in a submerged site in the Mediterranean Sea. See it in "Cleopatra's Final Secret" on Sept. 25 on National ...

Archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a submerged port and a tunnel at Taposiris Magna, a site linked by many to Cleopatra's tomb ...

After the artifact went missing from Cairo's Egyptian Museum in early September, authorities began carefully tracking down ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.