The Egyptian cobra, known for its ancient Egyptian iconography, is a venomous snake measuring up to 2.4 meters. Found in ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.

Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...

Steven Holland’s fascination with snakes goes back to his childhood when growing up in bushland in southwest Western ...

Melampus, a legendary Greek iatromantis, was a shaman, healer and seer famed for his prophetic gifts and ability to cure ...

On this day, 100 years ago, King Tutankhamun's sarcophagus was first disturbed by a group of British archaeologists. A set of ...

Initially believed to belong to an ancient crocodile-like species, the fossils were later identified as belonging to a massive snake. The researchers noted that snakes, being cold-blooded, rely on ...

This is when auction houses and speculators come in. In the UK, auction houses such as Greasbys purchase lost luggage in bulk from airports such as the busy London Heathrow Airport . While airports ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...