If it looks like a duck, it might have been a dinosaur
It’s long been accepted that birds are essentially modern dinosaurs, but does that mean an ancient dinosaur could have looked and acted like a duck? Paleontologists are pointing to fossils from...
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Hidden passage discovered within Egypt’s Great Pyramid
Archaeologists have discovered a long-lost passageway within Egypt’s 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, thanks to 21st-century technologies including muon tomography and endoscopy. It’s the latest...
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Dinosaur super-necks, flipped fossils and other paleo bits
Paleontologists find the darndest things — including evidence for the longest-known sauropod neck, and fossils that literally turn their assumptions upside down. Check out these fresh developments from...
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Image revives hopes of solving Amelia Earhart mystery
What happened to Amelia Earhart, the famed aviator whose plane disappeared in 1937 as she was trying to fly around the world? After surveying 5,200 square miles of the Pacific Ocean, searchers say they...
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Pompeii dining hall got Romans talking about Trojan War
Archaeologists in Pompeii have unveiled an ancient Roman banquet hall featuring a cleverly conceived set of frescoes inspired by tales of the Trojan War. The 50-by-20-foot (15-by-6-meter) room was...
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Scientists find traces of a lost river next to the pyramids
Why were more than two dozen of ancient Egypt’s pyramids — including the Great Pyramid of Giza — clustered in a narrow strip of desert? Scientists say they’ve come up with a solution to the mystery:...
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3,300-year-old shipwreck wows Israeli archaeologists
Israeli archaeologists say the world’s oldest known deep-sea shipwreck has been discovered about 55 miles off the coast of northern Israel, lying on the mile-deep bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The...
View ArticleStonehenge’s mystery stone traced to … Scotland?
Scientists say the most mysterious stone in England’s ancient Stonehenge monument appears to have been brought to the site thousands of years ago from northern Scotland, about 435 miles away. The...
View ArticleScientists map a fruit fly’s brain — and are thinking ahead
Researchers say they have created a complete map of an adult fruit fly, showing how almost 140,000 individual neurons are linked up to each other and turn sensory inputs into behavioral responses. The...
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Oops! That’s not Amelia Earhart’s plane — it’s a rock
Once again, a seemingly promising lead in the search for traces of missing aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and her plane has fizzled out. Hopes of solving the 87-year-old mystery were raised in January...
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