The oldest bones ofHomo sapiensever found in Europe have been discovered in a Bulgarian cave, providing the earliest known evidence of...

According to reports, researchers have found the fossilized remains a 4×4 mega-mammal: a creature that was over four meters long and...

The Stone Age marks a period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools. Lasting roughly 2.5 million years, the Stone Age...

Of all the volcanic eruptions to shake our planet in the last 2 million years, the Toba super-eruption in India was one of the most...

People usually believe that pyramids are the greatest architectural achievement in the history of our civilization. But this is highly...

Around 41 million years ago, on the southern tip of what was then the Gondwana continent, two mating flies were unexpectedly interrupted...

Scientists from Harvard University who examined rocks over 3 billion years old discovered that Earth’s tectonic plates move today in the...

A crucial structure in the brain that serves in controlling language, found only in humans and apes, has now also been identified in...

Found in the north of present day Syria, Tell Qaramel dates close in age to Gobekli Tepe (Turkey)  9130–8800 BCE. Civilization that was...

"A scientist exploring deep inside a cave in France has discovered huge dinosaur footprints, measuring up to 1.25 metres long, made by...

"To us, the pyramids of Egypt are very ancient. However, already in times of ancient Egypt, for example, the reign of King Tut, the...

Ask someone to name every dimension they know of and they'll likely list the following: length, width, and depth. They might also add...

Scientists recently discovered the skull of an extremely tiny, bird-like dinosaur that could be the smallest known species of the...

Earth’s relationship with the moon, our world’s faithful companion, goes back quite extensively in history. It all began some 3.5 billion...

The "priceless" four-millimetre specimens were found in the Coober Pedy opal fields, an area famed for the colourful gems. Dr Ben Grguric...

The earliest known ancestor of most familiar forms of animal life living on the planet today appears to have been identified in outback...

"Experts have discovered a fossil of the world’s oldest known modern bird – a diminutive creature about half the size of a mallard duck....

"An unusually large structure from the last ice age built from the bones of dozens of woolly mammoths has been uncovered in Russia....

To put it mildly, this is one gem of a gem. From a sheep ranch in Western Australia comes the oldest slice of Earth we know. Scientists...

"The footprints of stegosaurs, carnivorous theropods and huge herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs that date back to 170 million years ago...