There is a "high probability" that recently found remains are those of the two missing children of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, says a Russian forensics expert. Video included

An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered some 20 intact clay pots sealed with cartouche of boy pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Upper Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Monday.

It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened.

Scientists seeking to decode ancient DNA from woolly mammoths and other Ice Age beasts have found an abundant new source of unsullied genetic material: ordinary hair.

Oxygen, key to life on Earth today, began to appear on the planet millions of years earlier than scientists had thought, new research indicates.

Japanese scientists have created this phenomenon by using traditional selective breeding (instead of genetic modification), and by mating the palest wild frogs they could find, the researchers have come up with a frog whose internal organs, eggs, and...

Papa salmon plus mama salmon equals ... baby trout? Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish.

Is there life on Mars? Who knows, but if the US House of Representatives gets its way, no human will be making the trip to find out.

Astronomers have discovered a celestial counterpart to the philosophical question "Does a tree make a sound if it falls in a forest with no one around to hear it?"

Mammoth bones may draw tourists to Waco, but just how mammoth their impact will be is anyone's guess at this point. Even so, some are betting that tourists attracted to the Waco Mammoth Site now on track to be part of the National Park