Our planet's surface has seen a thing or two in its 4.5 billion-odd-years of existence. Weathered by ocean, corroded by wind, and...

A team of scientists in the US and Japan says that these prehistoric microorganisms began to grow and divide despite having entered an...

Archaeologists believe that the rare stone artifact uncovered in southern West Bank was used in ancient times as a worship tool during a...

The site is called Wadi El Hitan, dubbed the Valley of Whales, located around 160 kilometers from the famous pyramids at Giza. There is...

NOT TO TOOT my own horn, but I know a thing or two about bizarre animals. And I can tell you without a hint of doubt that the bobbit worm...

Having dominated the planet's surface for hundreds of millions of years, dinosaur diversity came to a dramatic conclusion some 66 million...

If we take a look at what history tells us, we will find that the earliest known writing systems developed in ancient Sumer sometime...

Vampire squid have been lurking in the dark corners of the ocean for 30 million years, a new analysis of a long-lost fossil finds....

The remains of a 99 million-year-old Enantiornithes baby bird, uniquely preserved, were found in a piece of Burmese amber from Myanmar....

A flip-flop of Earth’s magnetic poles between 42,000 and 41,000 years ago briefly but dramatically shrank the magnetic field’s strength —...

A genetic analysis of long-extinct Siberian mammoths has nearly doubled the record for the oldest DNA yet sequenced. The genetic...

A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China, along with one from Australia, one from Taiwan and one from the...

In 2017, American archaeologists reported a sensational find that points to the possible presence of humans in America as early as...

We all know that dinosaurs were big, but we are finding out just how big they really got. Possibly the largest dinosaur (or land animal)...

Paleontologists have identified four fossilized snake skeletons as belonging to a new species of ancient python. At roughly 47 million...

Scientists are hailing it as the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever discovered. That’s why you cannot see its bones – they remain...

The Sculpture is believed to be more than 14,000 years old and is regarded as the largest and finest surviving prehistoric sculptures in...

A cave painting of a pig discovered in a karst cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia has been recognized as the world’s oldest...

The ancient, extinct dire wolf may have been among the lonest of the wolves - so genetically distinct from its closest wolf relative that...

MOSCOW (AP) — A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in...