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STONEHENGE, England—All hail the rising sun. Around 8,000 revelers gathered around a prehistoric stone circle on a plain in southern England to express their devotion to the sun, or to ...

An ancient fortress built on top of a giant granite rock formation in Sri Lanka, looming 200 meters ...

It was getting late and the team of paleontologists excavating a previously unexplored outcrop of the Burgess Shale ...

Researchers in Canada recently discovered a bizarre, roughly 30-armed prehistoric life form that may have been an early ...

Researchers in Scotland have unveiled the skeleton of a 164-million-year-old fossil known as the Storr Lochs Monster which ...

New research details the discovery of two fossilized bird wings estimated to be 99 million years old.

On May 20, a paleontologist in Irvine, California came upon something truly remarkable. The researcher was performing the ...

In 1901, divers exploring off the coast of Greece came upon a vast sunken treasure, and amidst the ...

A lizard fossilized in amber that was found in Southeast Asian could date back 99 million years, which ...

520-million-year-old fossils belonging to a shrimp-like crustacean are deemed extraordinary due to how much of the creature's central ...

An international team of researchers claims to have confirmed the existence of a massive, flightless bird that lived ...

A renovation and expansion of Oregon State University's Reser Stadium recently led to the unexpected discovery of what ...

A significant dinosaur discovery has been made in Wales. A recently published study states that the 201-million-year old ...

Archaeologists are increasingly discovering megaliths across the continent – albeit a small number so far – that were ...

The newly-discovered pig-nosed turtle is not like other turtles.

A new study describes how a small bone fragment indicates that a giant predatory lizard akin to the ...

A mass grave uncovered by scientists yielded the remains of 26 Neolithic individuals who appear to have been ...

Paleontologists have recently announced the discovery of a new winged dinosaur in China named “Yi qi” meaning “strange ...

A 508-million-year-old arthropod is thought to share a common ancestor with spiders and scorpions.

An Oklahoma fisherman thinks he might have reeled in the skull of a woolly mammoth. He plans to ...

A 2.8 million-year-old jawbone could represent the most ancient member of our genus ever discovered.

The 4.4 billion-year-old meteorite is like nothing ever discovered on Earth and gives researchers insight into the makeup ...

The reptilian creature is believed to have made its home in Scotland some 170 million years ago.

From The Siberian Times: When Andrey Tyuryakov scanned the ground for signs of mushrooms, little did he know ...

Fossil evidence of the oldest known horned dinosaur ever found in North America has recently been identified by ...