Bees are commonly imagined as insects that live in hives hanging from trees. In reality, however, about 70 percent of native bees build their nests in the ground. And, according to new research, some ...

Luring earthworms out of the soil to use as live bait is a long-running tradition in Sopchoppy, home to the annual Worm ...

Stephanie Castellano is a freelance journalist based in Florida. Her work has appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Atlas ...

Europeans spread rumors about degraded gold from their Akan trade partners. A new analysis of artifacts from the "Whydah ...

The Inca were a powerful Indigenous civilization that emerged in South America during the early 1200s and flourished until ...

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones that included fossils and ...

The Barbican Music Library is celebrating British pop culture with a show that features Mel B's leopard catsuit, Emma ...

Archaeologists in northern Guatemala unearthed a colonnaded open hall that may have served as a council house, where local ...

In a cave tucked beneath the Welsh landmark, archaeologists have found evidence of human and animal visits over the past ...

Teaching in Oxford, England, began no later than 1096. Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was founded in 1325. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images: Public domain and Txllxt TxllxT via ...

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception ...

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs ...