Long before humans invented complex systems of symbolic communication, they began experimenting with abstract forms by ...

Jonathan’s recognition as a Guinness World Records ICON is warmly welcomed by the people of St Helena,” Nigel Phillips CBE, ...

It was essentially a simplified version of what Stonehenge does, but radiocarbon dating suggests the new site was in use ...

You can’t put them on a scale.

"Recently, an eastern hellbender, the largest salamander in North America, was found crushed beneath rocks that had been ...

Meet Dudgeon’s walking shark, the 10th known species in a genus famous for using their fins as legs to "walk" and the first ...

Hundreds of sextillions of dust grains may have escaped Earth and reached Europa, raising intriguing questions about the ...

The famous Nun Study is an incredible example of a long-term study that has significant implications for science.

The oldest known outbreak of plague has been unearthed from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement in southeast Siberia.

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Assuming the capsule survives, the people of 2276 will be met with some pretty unusual items. And a whole lot of poetry.

The marine mammal was a spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii), the rarest species of beaked whale on Earth. Only six ...