As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

LOS ANGELES — This summer, thousands of yogis from around the world will gather for a week of divine inspiration and fellowship, an immersion in the Kriya Yoga teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for archaeologists, its ubiquitous presence in excavated pottery offers a window ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

MOSS LANDING, Calif. — Five million years ago, nature orchestrated what scientists now confirm was Earth’s largest known flood, an event so massive it could have filled the Grand Canyon in just a few ...