A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

The scan of the storied ship was carried out over three weeks in 2022 by Magellan, a deep-sea mapping company based ... to human remains—like this ancient Nepalese child’s skull—without ...

This week, learn why experts are divided over an exoplanet, see the first footage of a colossal squid in its deep-sea habitat ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how ... but until now only a hypothesis. “The sand seas that we are used to seeing have not always been the ...

And instead of engineers, evolution drives the design. The significance of this discovery goes far beyond ancient seas. It gives researchers a rare look into how natural selection worked during ...

Sea turtles are among the oldest types of animals alive today, having been around since the time of the dinosaurs. These magnificent reptiles rarely spend time on land and can reach a weight of around ...

Rub’ al-Khali is the largest “sand sea” in the world ... According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy rainfall ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...

tears down currency controls 'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrong ...

when the sea level was so low that Taiwan was linked to Asia by a land bridge. But in 2010, a Taiwanese paleontologist was presented with a particularly odd find: a fossil that looked like half a ...

To bolster his theory, Borisov turned to ancient texts and medieval maps — including the 13th ... makes its exit into the sea… Euphrates also, as well as Tigris, goes down into the Red Sea ...