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More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end. A paleontologist from the museum prepares a whale fossil at the site where many prehistoric whale fossils were discovered in the Atacama desert near...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have retrieved artifacts from ancient Mayan ruins submerged in picturesque Lake Atitlan that officials estimate could be more than 2,000 years old. Scuba divers exploring the underwater ceremonial site of Samabaj found the remarkable pottery pieces...

Using a new technology known as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), a team of Belgian scientists and Professor John Coleman Darnell of Yale have determined that Egyptian petroglyphs found at the east bank of the Nile are about 15,000 years old, making them the oldest rock art...

Scientists from Chile and the Smithsonian Institution have been working to protect a huge collection of whale fossils found in the Atacama desert. A prehistoric whale fossil lays in the Atacama desert near Copiapo, Chile. More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating...

New, high-precision equipment orbiting Earth aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is now sending such rich data back to astronomers, some feel they are crossing the final frontier toward understanding galaxy evolution, says Todd Tripp, leader of the team at the University of Massachusetts...