Toronto, Nov 17 (IANS) A Canadian archaeologist has debunked the prophecy that the world will come to an end in December 2012. The doomsday prophecy comes from an ancient carved monument found from ...

Mexico City/San Salvador, Nov 9 (DPA) More than 100 people were killed as heavy rains set off mudslides and caused flooding in El Salvador, rescue workers said. The rainfall, which came amid a ...

Mexico City/San Salvador, Nov 9 (DPA) At least 90 people were killed as heavy rains prompted mudslides and flooding rivers in El Salvador, rescue workers said Sunday. The rainfall, which was prompted by ...

Cancun, Nov 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Officials have issued a hurricane watch for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi. Whereas Hurricane Ida swept the resort city of Cancun on Sunday, with heavy-duty rains and ...

San Salvador, Nov 8 (IANS) At least 40 people have been killed in floods caused by the hurricane Ida that swept El Salvador, interior minister said Sunday. The government has declared a state ...

Mumbai, Oct 16 (IANS) A massive asteroid crashing off the western coast of India, creating the planet's largest known crater 40 km across, may have obliterated dinosaurs 65 million years ago, an ...

Washington, October 16 (ANI): If a new study is anything to go by, dinosaurs were killed by a giant impact near India, not Mexico. In the research, Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University ...

Washington, October 14 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the world's biggest snake lived in the earliest known "modern" rain forest some 60 million years ago. According to a report in ...

London, September 23 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that many pyramids in Mexico were created by the ancient Mayans to create "raindrop" music to communicate with their rain god. Take for example, Mexico's El ...

Washington, September 14 (ANI): A team of expert divers, a geochemist and an archaeologist is all set to become the first to explore the sacred pools of the southern Maya lowlands ...

Washington, August 25 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of predatory crustaceans in the Canary Islands, which have a head equipped with long antennae for eyes, powerful prehensile limbs and ...

Washington, June 21 (ANI): A new research has provided insights into the domestication of chiles and determined that they are important reservoirs of genetic diversity that are quite significant for conserving biodiversity. Capsicum ...

Washington, April 21 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that the ancient Maya civilization used a rare type of clay called "palygorskite" to produce Maya blue, a unique bright blue ...

Washington, April 16 (ANI): A study, which is being touted as controversial, has said that fossil coral reefs at a Mexican theme park "confirm" that sea levels rose rapidly about 121,000 ...

Mexico City, April 6 (ANI): Mexican archaeologists have begun the recovery of a great Mayan city buried under tons of earth and jungle in the archaeological area of Ichkabal on the Yucatan ...

London, Feb 24 (ANI): The results of a new research indicate that the dinosaur-killing meteorite that struck Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago did not ...

London, January 20 (ANI): An analysis of fossils that were recently found in the Arctic suggests that the dinosaurs might have died out quickly, contrasting the idea that the massive reptiles ...

Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered a labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves, some of which are underwater, on Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula, which according to Maya ...

Washington, September 4 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas, deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico. Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve ...

Washington, August 24 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered a labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves, some of which are underwater, in Mexico''s Yucatan Peninsula, which is may be ...

Washington, August 23 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered a labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves, some of which are underwater, in Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula, which is may be ...

DPA Mexico City, June 13 (DPA) A group of armed men have kidnapped a group of 34 illegal Cuban refugees who were being transported in a government bus in Mexico, the police have ...

Washington, June 10 (ANI): Lack of evidence has led researchers to confirm that the Caribbean monk seal is now officially extinct. According to a report in Discovery News, the Caribbean monk seal ...

DPA Washington, June 1 (DPA) A new tropical storm, Arthur, was heading toward the central American coast of Belize and the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, the US National Hurricane Centre said. ...

Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): Anthropologists have solved the centuries-old mystery of how the ancient Maya produced an unusual blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica ...

Washington, Jan 25 (ANI): Three-dimensional seismic images of a crater believed to be formed when an asteroid stuck the Earth 65 million years ago, causing the extinction of dinosaurs, suggest that the ...

Washington, Jan 24 (ANI): Three-dimensional seismic images of a crater believed to be formed when an asteroid stuck the Earth 65 million years ago, causing the extinction of dinosaurs, suggest that the ...

Washington, December 31 (ANI): A US agency that focuses on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere has revealed that 2007 was one of the 10 warmest years since 1880. Preliminary ...