According to a new study published May 7 in the journal Science Advances, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor (anything below ...

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years. Yet researchers have only ...