Decius ruled for only two years before he was killed in a battle against the Goths. A newly found statue in Rome appears to depict a slain Roman em…
An illustration of a the surface of a rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter) J…
Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scan…
The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to at least a semblance of life if attempts by a gene editing company …
To avoid catastrophic global heating, countries need to phase out oil and gas as quickly as possible. The extraction and consumption of these fossil …
According to a new study, some of the world's first cities were completely destroyed 4,000 years ago after being exposed to a powerful combinatio…
Great Zimbabwe. Great Zimbabwe was the first major city in southern Africa, home to an estimated 18,000 people at its peak. Yet no one really knows w…
The fossil of a 185 million-year-old ancestor of crocodiles has been discovered on Britain’s Jurassic Coast. Parts of the head, backbone, and limbs o…
An eerily-perfect "whirlpool" of light in the shape of a spiral galaxy briefly appeared in the night sky above Hawaii. But what was it? It…
At least two individuals of the Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) live in Sagarmatha National Park, Mount Everest region, eastern Nepal, according to …