Laura Geggel

When looking for a meal, prehistoric people in Africa munched on the tuberous roots of weeds such as the purple nutsedge, according to a new study of hardened plaque on samples of ancient teeth.

Octopuses move with a simple elegance, but they have no rhythm, according to new research.

The dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered mile-high monster waves and waters that reached the world over.

Paleontologists are unhappy that a T. rex specimen from Montana is hitting the auction block in Hong Kong in November.

Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. These staples of the tropics typically bend during gusty weather.

A toothless skull was all that researchers had of one of Scotland's oldest known Druids, but now they have something more: a wax re-creation of her face.

Earth scientists in China have found evidence of a subduction zone dating to 2.5 billion years ago.

Why were medieval women with egg-shaped skulls buried in Bavaria? A DNA analysis reveals their origins.

A woman in the Netherlands contracted an unusual bacterial infection that may have come from one of her pet cats, according to a new report of her case.

A Germanic aristocrat is just one of 80 newly discovered ancient burials.

Amateur freedivers found a giant stash of gold coins dating to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Neanderthals and Denisovans — both relatives of modern humans — were roommates, literally, for thousands of years in a remote Siberian cave, two new studies find.

Historians found that a Book of the Dead segment from New Zealand matched another in Los Angeles.

Paleontologists in Chile have found the remains of an ankylosaur that represents a new dinosaur lineage.

How did the Maya, Aztec and other Mesoamerican cultures play the ballgame? And did they really sacrifice the game's players?

More than 500 years ago, the Aztecs created a "trophy tower" out of hundreds of human skulls.

Operation Reinhard, known as the single largest murder campaign during the Holocaust, was worse than historians imagined.

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered ancient mural fragments that are the oldest evidence of the Maya calendar on record.

Miscarriages are common, but the majority of Americans still think they occur rarely, a new survey finds.