Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical ...

Death Valley National Park has experienced so much record-breaking rainfall this season that an ancient lake has reappeared.

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Iron Age site in Afghanistan, revealing stone structures, a drikning vessel and early ...

CRISPR is one of the most revolutionary technologies of the modern era, and now it's being used to bring back long-lost genes ...