An 18th century Spanish galleon dubbed the "holy grail of shipwrecks" for its storied cache of 11 million gold and silver ...

The clever, adaptable urban "trash panda" may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other ...

Surveyed for the first time since its discovery two decades ago, the settlement "breaks from all the things that we thought ...

Thomas Jefferson's nephew is buried in Nashville, and his DNA may shed light on whether Jefferson had children with the enslaved Sally Hemings.

Colombian scientists have recovered the first artifacts from the legendary 300-year-old San José galleon, known as the 'Holy ...

It was a cool, crisp, November afternoon. The Saturday before Thanksgiving. The day of the Big Game. Stanford vs. Cal. This ...

The event, which returns to the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris later this month, will see Spanish royalty and Hollywood nepo ...

For more than a century, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been framed as a story of extinction, a vanishing act that cleared the stage for Homo sapiens. A new wave of genetic and archaeological ...

This Thanksgiving, we give thanks to the students who share their stories—and their journeys—with us and talk with them about what they’re thankful for. Their experiences remind us how powerful ...

Credit: Grainger Films Bodies decompose differently in mass graves than in individual graves. To understand these differences ...