A law that gives forest-dwelling tribes the right to cultivate their traditional lands will devastate India's endangered wildlife, some conservationists argue.
Pieces of the only known surviving Roman throne were recently found in lava and ash from the first-century eruption of present-day Italy's Mount Vesuvius.
The first law to recognize the rights of tribal people to live in protected forests is yet to be enforced due to an outcry from conservationists that the move could doom India's tigers.
A 500-year-old map that makes the first known reference to "America" has some researchers scratching their heads about how the mapmaker sketched out the world.
European bears didn't need to retreat south during the last Ice Age, DNA evidence has found—hunting, and not climate, may be to blame for their now-fragmented habitats.
The intricately carved vase is giving experts a glimpse into ancient rituals that included food offerings, chocolate enemas, and hallucinations induced by vomiting.
Researchers in Jerusalem stumbled on 5th-century B.C. artifacts that suggest a nearby wall is the same one described in the Book of Nehemiah, one archeologist says.
Seborga considers itself independent of Italy, with its own currency, stamps, and prince. Some also claim it holds a biblical, Da Vinci Code-type secret.
Genetic clues suggest that Carolina Gold, one of the most lucrative rice varieties in early American history, arrived in the colonies with slaves from West Africa.
Farmers recently attacked police who were looking to seize dinosaur bones, setting up the first court test of a fossil-trade ban targeting "peasant paleontologists."
