In the ancient landscapes of what is now northeastern Brazil, 113 million years ago, an unusual ant with bizarre ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

Explore the unexpected vintage weapons used in the war, revealing the stark contrasts in military resources and strategies ...

A dark forest, a family on the run, and a terrifying howl in every direction: A new generation continues an old tradition in ...

The last witch trial in Germany took place 250 years ago. Yet a global study shows that the belief in witchcraft is still ...

While Bengali is primarily derived from Magadhi Prakrit, over the years, the language has taken on new forms, ranging from ...

Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese is revealing its ...

A wine shop sign in the ruins of the ancient Roman city Herculaneum’s main street. The sign tells viewers to 'come to the sign of the bowls' (ad cucumas). Some of the wines also have vintage dates.

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with ...