Archaeologists working in southern Spain have identified what appears to be the first direct physical evidence of an elephant ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Here are some fantastic aerial views of Portugal, Spain's neighbor on the Iberian Peninsula.

Bad weather battered southern Italy on Friday (February 13), with an orange alert issued for Calabria and a yellow alert for four other regions. The Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria was the most affected ...

The administration of President Donald Trump took its most sweeping action to reverse U.S. action on climate change on Thursday (February 12), announcing the repeal of a scientific finding that ...

Around 2400 BC, the people who had built Stonehenge and other massive Neolithic monuments effectively vanished. Previous ancient DNA studies showed that they were replaced by newcomers with Steppe ...

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding for diverse biological applications, such as proteins that form the building ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance genius. Historical artifacts can accumulate DNA from the environment and ...

Scientists hunting for the DNA of famed Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci say they’ve made a breakthrough—but some experts caution against interpreting the results as a smoking gun.