Around the deep-sea vents off the southern coast of Japan, a small, “glass”-like creature was discovered. Getty Images/iStockphoto Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface, the ...

Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know about death, ritual, and identity in the early medieval north. At the center of ...

The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to speak for her in death. Then archaeologists brushed away the soil around ...