Yahoo News

About 800 years ago, in a large room lit by a wood fire, fierce looking men bedecked in bright feathers and polished copper ornaments gathered to smoke and talk.

ScienceBlogs

In July of 1845 the amateur fossil hunter Albert Koch brought his sea monster to New York City. A cousin of the serpentine creatures that so many had claimed to see off the coast of New England, the 114 foot long skeleton looked to be the bones of the Leviathan itself, and crowds flocked to see the its ghastly form. It was called "Hydrarchos" by Koch, and it was was the ruler of the ancient seas.

Times Online

On the morning of August 22, 1485, the last medieval king of England gambled his throne and his life on one desperate cavalry charge.

Telegraph UK

The buried antiquities of Ur could one day outshine those of ancient Egypt, archaeologists at a large scale excavation in Iraq believe.

Kansas

In Science magazine this week, paleontologists are announcing the discovery of a new genus of ancient giant fish, uncovered in the chalk deposits of Kansas, Britain and elsewhere. And with that discovery comes the story of the relentless Kansas family that solved a fish science mystery.

Science Daily

Using several scientific methods, including analyzing DNA from royal mummies, research findings suggest that malaria and bone abnormalities appear to have contributed to the death of Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamun, with other results appearing to identify members of the royal family, including King Tut's father and mother, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.

USAID

The matching Indiana Jones fedoras on two leading archeologists as they entered the ancient Temple Rameses III of Medinet Habu were necessary shields for working in the 104 degree Egyptian desert in October.

EurekAlert

Researchers examined 348 burial urns to learn that about a fifth of the children were prenatal at death, indicating that young Carthaginian children were cremated and interred in ceremonial urns regardless of cause of death

National Geographic

Prehistoric axes found on a Greek island show that seafaring existed in the Mediterranean long before the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe.

KPBS

Scientists have spent the last year deciphering clues from mammoth and gray whale fossils found in downtown San Diego.