The story of the human race is a story of technology. One of our ancestors created fire and passed that knowledge along to ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

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

Old World, High Tech An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time. Eric Jaffe. December 2006. Get our newsletter! ... Physical evidence of an ancient technology is rare, ...

The large flying reptiles known as pterosaur preyed on primitive fish that would have hard scale armour covering them.

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur – a flying reptile that soared above the dinosaurs more than 200 ...