In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

This ancient crocodile never finished its last meal. More than 2,000 years after it died, researchers can still make out a ...

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they first appeared, without the large brains that supported flight in birds. A ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for archaeologists, its ubiquitous presence in excavated pottery offers a window ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...