A horse's head, part of of an approximately 2,000 years old rider's statue was found in an excavation site in Waldgirmes some 20 miles north of Frankfurt.

Scientists have long concluded that domestication of canines began in East Asia, due to the huge genetic diversity of dogs found there. But new research published in the journal PNAS shows the DNA of dogs in African villages is just as varied.

Scientists say they have genetic proof malaria spread by mosquitoes jumped species from chimpanzees to humans.

The idea of food that's not grown by conventional agricultural methods is actually not so far from reality as we'd all like to think. Check out these excerpts from recent stories in Wired magazine about meat grown in test-tube like conditions in vats.

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With a fearsome grin fit for a movie monster, this viperfish is a real-life predator that lurks in one of the world's most remote locations

WILLS POINT, Texas -- Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park. Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the m

The oldest living thing has been discovered in the form of 600,000-year-old bacteria extracted from ice cores, scientists claim.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have said they have discovered a sunken vessel packed with ancient pottery, in an exploration prompted by an octopus which attached its suckers to a plate. The 12th-century wooden vessel was found buried in mud flats off Taean, southwest

Missouri and Illinois conservationists are seeing troubling signs in amphibian populations, mirroring problems seen elsewhere in the world.