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The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...