STONES, BONES, AND WRECKS

From big stone spheres to an actual mummy, amazing archaeological finds have been unearthed by people just minding their own business.

These are the five deepest shipwrecks ever discovered, including the USS ‘Samuel B. Roberts,’ which went to the depths of the Philippine Trench during the Second World War.

A sunken ship near Florida holds clues to the early history of cats in the U.S.

The complicated legal case involving salvage rights to the RMS ‘Titanic’ continues, 40 years after the famous shipwreck was rediscovered.

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding the Rosetta Stone’s discovery and translation is more obscure.

There’s a gooey time capsule in the heart of Los Angeles, left over from an era when saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, camels, and giant sloths prowled southern California.

New Zealand’s open-access fossil database makes it easier for scientists to collaborate.

Often dismissed as “primitive,” our extinct relatives were surprisingly thoughtful. Some were also cannibals.

Scientists have uncovered ancient fossils, prehistoric artwork, and other clues to human evolution. Here are nine of the most revealing discoveries that have changed our understanding of our early ancestors—and ourselves.

The footage is from a new ‘Endurance’ documentary hitting Disney+ later this year.

Scientists examined microscopic fossils in the tombstone and suggest the jet-black slab with an English knight’s insignia could have come only from one place.

Millions of fossils, from shells to the largest known shark species, were unearthed beneath San Pedro High School.