In Ancient Greek mythology, the chimera was a monstrous creature. It was a mishmash of different animals, some of which were ...

It’s the Halloween season, a time when we celebrate the macabre with decorations. And apparently humans have been doing so for way longer than we realized. A leading expert on Ancient Babylonian ...

Could pits hold evidence of ancient Mars life? Researchers just found hundreds of crescent-shaped depressions on the surface of the Red Planet. These pits likely used to be sand dunes — each one the ...

Step into the shadows with the Ghost Warriors - the elite night fighters who ambushed and crushed Rome’s legions in ...

70 million years ago, the arid landscape of central Bolivia used to be lush and humid. What are now dry sandstone beds were once lakes, and at the edge of one of these shallow, freshwater lakes, ...

A mysterious population of ancient humans lived in West Africa about half a million years ago, and scientists believe their genes still live on in people today. This "archaic ghost population" appears ...

ROME — The greatest challenge of mounting an exhibition about the famous ancient Greek artist Phidias (c. 480–c. 430 BCE) is that not a single surviving piece of work can be attributed to him with ...

Our DNA reveals extinct "ghost lineages" that shaped human evolution, painting a complex, "braided stream" of history rather than a simple progression. These ancient groups, leaving no fossils, ...