A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...
Scientists uncovered the ancient brain structure of an 80-million-year-old fossil bird named Navaornis hestiae, providing ...
A team of scientists has found evidence of liquid water on Mars from 742 million years ago in a Martian meteorite known as ...
Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...
The presence of glacial evidence in this location strongly supports the idea that ice covered the entire planet.
Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...
A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.
New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...
A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient vegetation was ...
Thousand-year-old seeds, and traces hidden in the soil for more than 5,000 years, have a lot to tell us. They provide clues ...