Courts have affirmed evolution's place in education. Creationism is just a belief, not based on empirical data, and not ...

A fossilized spider unearthed in the grasslands of eastern Australia has turned out to be the largest of its kind ever discovered on the continent—and possibly one of the largest fossil spiders found ...

MILWAUKEE - Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations are underway in Milwaukee, with the Milwaukee Public Museum inviting the community to honor Latino culture through food, music and education.

An ancient asteroid impact in Australia is revealed in shards of glass created when the giant space rock collided with the ...

This week in science: The Sun is flaring up unexpectedly; a 60-year diabetes mystery may finally be solved; the oldest human ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.

One of the studies, led by Dr. Aleksandra Sokołowska of Brown University and Imperial College London, has identified 258 ...

Ancient animal bones from Spain’s Malia shelter reveal repeated visits by early humans between 36,200 and 26,260 years ago.

"The port was active during the time of Cleopatra and before at the beginning of the dynasty," noted the archaeologist behind the discovery.

The skeleton, known as TBH1, had a rib injury thought to be caused by a sharp projectile and eventually succumbed to ...