Archaeology

The confiscated wooden covers are adorned with hieroglyphics and highlight what is a seemingly vast black market for mummies

Sensational fossils from South Africa spark debate over how we came to be human

What will scientists find in Antarctica's ancient Lake Vostok?

Sweeping images of the sunken ship were made by stitching together hundreds of optical and sonar images collected by deep-diving robots during a 2010 expedition

Archaeologists have developed a large-scale method and mapped some 14,000 settlement sites in northeastern Syria. The effort could uncover long-term trends in urban activity

Genetic traces similar to those in vertebrate brains have been found in lowly worms, but not all scientists are convinced that complex brains were already in the works more than 500 million years ago

Marine creatures called conodonts used minuscule tooth points to apply large pressure to food

Marine creatures called conodonts used minuscule tooth points to apply large pressure to food

The American West once harbored multiple communities of dinosaurs simultaneously—a revelation that has scientists scrambling to understand how the land could have supported so many behemoths

The earliest species had armored mouthparts to attack thick hides, a new fossil analysis shows

The fossilized teeth of the Neandertals are scientifically informative--and pleasing to the eye