But Benoit, who works at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has a different perspective. He says the animal ...

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent ...

WASHINGTON — A herd of 40 goats is hard at work gobbling a nearly impenetrable thicket of invasive vines and weeds at the ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

The pictures highlighted a variety of features of the moon's surface, including flat areas, hills, impact craters and large ...

The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.

The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Indigenous painting may portray a long extinct creature that appeared before the first dinosaurs, a study found.

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes ...

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...