The discovery of microscopic diamonds in 12,900-year-old soil supports the controversial idea that comet swarms caused a die-off of ice age mammals, a new study says.

Complete with canons and jars of olive oil, an 18th-century Spanish ship has been found at a Buenos Aires, Argentina, construction site.

The big cats originated in Africa or Asia, not North America as previously thought, according to a new study on a two-million-year-old skull.

Lost cities, baffling pyramids, and ancient graveyards are just some of the mysteries covered in National Geographic News's most viewed archaeology stories of 2008.

Bizarre prehistoric creatures--sea monsters, gargantuan rodents, a redheaded Neanderthal--are among the stars of the most read stories on dinosaurs and fossils by National Geographic News in 2008.

A farmer in Italy uncovered hundreds of ancient artifacts—some perhaps 2,500 years old—but ran into trouble with police when he tried to sell some of them.

On Sicily, ten thousand ancient Greek graves have come to light. Among their contents: war dead and infants encased, womblike, in jars.

The fatherly care birds show towards their offspring may have its roots in dinosaur behavior, a new study shows.

More than 10,000 graves containing ancient amphorae, "baby bottles," and the bodies of soldiers who fought the Carthaginians were found near the ancient Greek colony of Himera.

An "unexpected," 20-foot-long new dinosaur has been discovered in South America, rewriting the evolutionary history of raptors, a new study says.

An amateur paleontologist picked up a piece of amber on the south coast of England that scientists say holds a 140-million-year-old spider web.

An alien-like squid with "elbows" is caught on video, unknown "structures" are detected tugging at our universe, and more--2008's most read stories by National Geographic News.

Large air spaces inside of dinosaur skulls led to lighter body weights, which may have enabled their descendants to take to the skies.

The Peruvian government is suing Yale University over artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.

Recently found ceremonial relics add to what we know about Arawakan Indian populations that Christopher Columbus encountered during his first voyage to the New World.