A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.