Trump has committed to increasing U.S. energy production, particularly fossil fuels. He signed an executive order Monday ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.

A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

In the heart of Egypt's Sahara Desert, an extraordinary site known as Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, has unveiled fossils ...

Did you know whales evolve from a land based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To look into the evidence we need to look at ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

College of Charleston said South Carolina student on school trip to WY found mosasaur skeleton from millions of years ago. Fossil discovery was ‘extraordinary.’ ...

Scott Persons is pictured with South Carolina college student Monika Angner, who discovered fossils on a school trip. College of Charleston A sharp-eyed South Carolina college student was on a ...

A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant salamander with powerful jaws once burrowed through the ancient soil of what is ...