Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...

Progesterone, oestrogen and testosterone can be detected in skeletons over 1000 years old, offering a way to identify ...

"They’re iconic features." Scientists issue warning that ancient US feature could completely vanish: 'We'll be the first to ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

This little midgey could stick to rocks under water, something scientists thought only sea creatures could do before now.

Scientists believe they’ve decoded the mysterious symbols of Teotihuacan, revealing a potential ancient ancestor of Nahuatl.

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

Beryllium-10 spike in Pacific sediments hints at nearby supernova 10 million years ago, revealing cosmic impacts on Earth’s ...