Artist illustration by Mike Skrepnick of Spiclypeus shipporum, a newly described genus and species of horned dinosaur. Here, the dinosaur roams across a floodplain 76 million years ago. The fossil was discovered in 2005 in the Judith River Formation...
The archaeological excavation site in the ancient port of Naples is opposite the town square and a few meters below the present sea level.Credit: © Hugo Delile
Almost two thousand years after the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and...
An archeologist checks human bones as ancient roman ruins of former barracks were discovered during work on a new underground line, in Rome, Monday, May 16, 2016. Work on the Metro C being built through the center of Rome...
Marble Bar sediments, a microcrystalline silicone-rich chert. Credit: A. Glikson
Scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid that struck the Earth early in its life with an impact larger than anything humans have experienced.
Tiny glass beads called spherules,...
FSU Assistant Professor Jessi Halligan is the lead researcher on the project. During the diver, they recovered many mastodon and llama bones.Credit: Bruce Palmer/Florida State
The discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in a Florida river shows that humans...
This is a sural in the process of formation with earthworm aggregates on top.Credit: Professor José Iriarte
Mysterious spectacular mounds found in Earth in tropical wetlands in South America are created by earthworms, researchers have found.
The densely packed, regularly spaced...
Tiny coffin excavated at Giza in 1907 is remarkable evidence of importance placed on official burial rituals in ancient Egypt.
A miniature ancient Egyptian coffin measuring just 44cm in length has been found to contain the youngest ever example of a...
In what is considered one of the oldest and most important archaeological digs in North America, scientists have uncovered what they believe are the bones of a 13,000- to 14,000-year-old ancient, extinct species of bison at the Old Vero...
Receptacle in a child's hands. Credit: K. Botwid
Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund...
World's oldest axe fragment, seen here under a microscope, is the size of a thumbnail. Credit: Australian Archaeology.
Australian archaeologists have discovered a piece of the world's oldest axe in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The axe fragment is...
Mosasaur skeleton, UW Biology Building. Credit: © Alexandra MacKenzie / Flickr
Mosasaurs -- an extinct group of aquatic reptiles that thrived during the Late Cretaceous period -- possibly were "endotherms," or warm-blooded creatures, a paper co-written by a UA professor...
