Evolutionary biologist and comparative psychologist Russell Gray of the University of Auckland has helped crack open two areas—animal cognition and historical linguistics—long regarded by many as black boxes, impenetrable to the scientific method. Because languages change at unpredictable rates,

Dracula might be a fictional character, but archaeologists believe they've found the haunts of Vlad the Impaler--the real-life figure who inspired Bram Stoker's vampire tale. The researchers said this week they had uncovered a secret tunnel and two dungeons in Tokat Castle in northern Turkey, where

Discovered in 1907, Gorham’s Cave is a natural sea cave located on the southeastern face of the Rock of Gibraltar. It is the last known place of Neanderthal occupation in the world. Of the total 18 meters of archaeological deposits in the cave, the top 2 meters include Phoenician-Carthaginian

The skeletal remains of two lovebirds have been uncovered after being locked in a romantic embrace for the past 700 years. Archaeologists found the couple holding hands in an earthen grave during theexcavation of a "lost" chapel in Leicestershire, England, researchers reported Thursday. "We have

The biggest dinosaur predator that ever stalked the Earth was also the weirdest. Scientists announced on Thursday the discovery in Moroccan desert cliffs of new fossil remains of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, a 15-metre long, seven-tonne African monster that breaks the mold for how a dinosaur predator