Lobe-finned fishes once led the way in jaw innovation, reshaping evolution long before dinosaurs and life on land emerged.

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

A new method allows scientists to reconstruct carbon dioxide levels and photosynthesis from fossilized tooth enamel. A ...

Weak magnetic fields once exposed humans to radiation. People adapted with shelter, clothing, and mineral protection. Our ...

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so again, posing a threat to life.

Learn about the process that started life on Earth, linking amino acids with RNA to create proteins that are found in all ...

Asteroids crashing into the Earth could have delivered the building blocks of life to the planet, new research suggests. Scientists have previously discovered in meteorites three of the five ...

There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...