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 ...

Archaeologists uncover 16 Indigenous canoes, one older than the Pyramids, revealing a vast prehistoric travel network.

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

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

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, ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a diving expedition in the Nile River, archaeologists in Egypt discovered rock carvings featuring depictions of several ancient Egyptian pharaohs, along with hieroglyphic inscriptions. A joint ...

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 ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...