Discovery

On an ordinary walk around Big Bend National Park, a park ranger and volunteer made a rare scientific discovery: an entirely new kind of plant.

The discovery of a fossil species suggests that the story of birds started about 20 million years earlier than we thought.

New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.

What we got wrong about some of the ancient city's most famous victims.

Long thought to be from Wales, the monument's Altar Stone is from northern Scotland, nearly 500 miles away.

New evidence shows how citizens rebuilt their lives in the aftermath of the historic eruption.

It was possibly treated like the undead.

Turns out the parasites used to plague dinosaurs, too.

The former undertaker collects human brains, talks to them, and hopes they won’t haunt her.

New discoveries off the Chilean coast include dozens of species new to science.

Even actor Will Smith saw it slither through the Amazon.

What lurks below doesn’t always stay beneath the sand.

The midwest is particularly filled with them.

Along with obsidian that dazzled scientists in Canada.

New discoveries of ancient DNA could help scientists find the land of Punt.

Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.