Humans have contended with crocodiles for a really long time. The recent discovery of an ancient crocodilian species sporting a strange snout indicates the reptiles may have even preyed on our ...

Scientists discovered a crocodile relative that is 200 million years old and had two legs. The diversity of reptiles during the Triassic period is shown by this discovery, which is long before ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

NASA confirms that asteroid 2026 CC3, about the size of a bus, will make a close flyby of Earth on March 11, 2026, at a distance roughly four times that of the Moon’s orbit. Is this asteroid a "danger ...

It's weird that we have been told over and over that gladiators fought to the death, when it wasn't even true.

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Researchers using advanced imaging technology have deciphered 79 previously invisible inscriptions — including love notes, drawings of gladiators, and everyday messages — on a wall in the ancient city ...

It’s a kind of notice board … where people left messages, history, greetings, insults, drawings and much more.” ...

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

A photographic technique called Reflectance Transformation Imaging, also known as RTI, has now changed that. The new technology allowed researchers to decode 79 previously unreadable messages — ...

A lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest containing work on the sphere and cylinder has been identified in France.