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At dawn, a veil of mist clings to the canals of Hawizeh, where sky and water seem to blur into a mirror. In the stern of…

“Small and deceptively cute, but definitely not harmless” is how scientists have described a new species of ancient whale, from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on Victoria’s…

Archaeologists Stumble upon Tomb of Ancient Maya City’s First RulerA team of archaeologists excavating the ancient Maya city of Caracol discovered the tomb of its first…

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure.…

Thousands of miles of ancient riverbeds have been discovered in the heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars, suggesting the red planet was once a far wetter…

To the untrained eye, Monks Wood looks healthy and lush in the summer sun. Hundreds of butterflies dance on the edge of footpaths in the ancient…

You made it time. If you want to look a little longer, just scroll back up and press “Continue.”This painting is trying to tell us a…

4,800-Year-Old Teeth Yield First Human Genome from Ancient EgyptForty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence…

First Near-Complete Denisovan Skull Reveals What This Ancient Human Cousin Looked LikeA Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on…

How green is this? We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in…