Many archaeologists believe the famed tower from the Book of Genesis may have had a real historical counterpart in ancient ...

The reptile, a dinosaur look-alike called a shuvosaur, represents a long-awaited discovery that helps paleontologists fill a ...

It’s a question that’s kept history buffs up at night: Did biblical writers copy-paste their most famous tales ...

Archaeologists could be one step closer to locating Noah’s Ark’s final resting spot after noticing a peculiar feature on a 440-year-old world map called the Planisphere. Created in 1587 by Italian ...

In her new book, Beth Berkowitz looks at the Bible and rabbinic literature to reimagine the bonds between animals.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl forth from the seas. By Jack Tamisiea Some 425 million years ago, leggy ...

An ancient Roman mosaic shows a woman fighting a wild beast in the arena — a rare depiction of a female combatant and the first known visual representation of a woman battling animals, according to a ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners have died and landscapes have changed. After bones break down, tooth enamel ...

TULSA, Okla. — Mia Hagin, the wife of Rhema Bible Church co-pastor Craig Hagin, has pleaded no contest to animal cruelty charges. Judge April Seibert accepted Hagin's plea and reduced her charges to ...

Two mummified reptile specimens discovered in an Oklahoma cave are providing scientists with the clearest evidence yet of how breathing on land evolved — a shift that ultimately shaped the way humans ...

A recent feature by Maria Faith Saligumba for Discover Wildlife Science has renewed attention on a part of Costa Rica’s history that many people rarely think about: the giant animals that once lived ...