Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...

Recent bioarchaeological and osteological analysis of a skeleton excavated from a Roman cemetery outside the city of York, ...

Between backward-facing-feet, nipple-less milk secretion and egg-laying, platypuses and echidnas are some of the strangest ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs ...

If you look at Roman texts and artworks, you’ll see a lot of depictions of gladiators fighting each other or […] ...