Wildlife conservationists in India have devised a humane way to prevent wild elephant attacks on settlements and crops -- building fences smeared with the world's hottest chili.
The melting of the North American ice sheet more than 8,000 years ago may have caused a sea level rise that made farming conditions favorable in Europe, a new study says.
Mineral analysis of a distinctive group of jade artifacts suggests that Southeast Asia boasted one of the largest marine trading networks of prehistoric
times.
As the Maya elite class grew larger—and less secure—its burgeoning demand for animals of symbolic value may have caused a drop in large mammal populations.
Early beer makers discovered how to make a chocolate drink from cacao seedpods 3,000 years ago—about 500 years earlier than the beverage was known to exist, a new study says.
The temple, which includes colorful murals and an altar, dates back 4,000 years and is among the oldest sites discovered in the Americas, archaeologists say.
Almost a century after a mysterious explosion flattened a huge swath of Siberian forest, scientists say they have found a crater made by the cosmic object that created the blast.
On Sunday, archaeologists moved the mummy of the famous Egyptian pharaoh into a climate-controlled glass case, revealing his face publicly for the first time.
