In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including mammoths, bison and saber-toothed cats. By Kate Golembiewski During the ...

Earth was a terrifying place during the Cretaceous period, some 66 million to 145 million years ago. During its tail end, Tyrannosaurus rex prowled the land. And a little before that, another kind of ...

Greek officials have unveiled the interior of a massive ancient tomb possibly linked to Alexander the Great as archaeologists continue excavation and restoration work. Greece’s Ministry of Culture ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl forth from the seas. By Jack Tamisiea Some 425 million years ago, leggy ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

The temple is composed of a circular basin 115 feet wide. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists think a circular basin unearthed in Egypt is a temple connected to a mysterious ...

Brad Paisley’s love story with Kimberly Williams-Paisley started with a bold move. During a candid conversation on "Live with Kelly and Mark," Williams-Paisley revealed that her now-husband first ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system. Evolutionary arms races — where one species is pitted ...

The Goths were a multi-ethnic society, according to a study of DNA from Gothic graves. The people buried there had ancestry from places as far afield as Scandinavia, modern-day Turkey and North Africa ...

Business for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, is going from bad to worse in its second weekend at the box office. Written and directed by Gyllenhaal, The ...