Millions of years ago, England was a much different place than it is today. In the Late Eocene, England was rich with ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Chinese New Year, like Ramadan and the 12 days of Christmas, is an ancient holiday which lasts for a while. This year, it ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to about 215 million years ago has been described from the U.K. It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones, a secondary school ...

Instead of depicting the Trojan War from Homer’s Iliad as originally deduced, the mosaic may actually be a reference to the ...

Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh take on the moon's mysterious ...

The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...

A new Curtin University study finds no glacial traces near Stonehenge, strengthening evidence that Neolithic people ...

A 215-million-year-old crocodylomorph discovered in the United Kingdom has been identified as a new species, Galahadosuchus ...

Archaeologists hope the newly discovered ruins at Siddhartha Gautam’s childhood palace will help secure Unesco World Heritage status.

The Green Forest Hoverfly, known to exist in just two locations in the country, has been found in higher numbers in the New Forest thanks to a volunteer-led conservation project.