The thing most people know about lemmings – their tendency to follow each other off a cliff – is not actually true (more on ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

The story of when humans first arrived in the Americas is being rewritten—thanks to some ancient footprints found in New ...

A group of scientists have found an astonishing diversity of microorganisms in tiny pools of melted ice in Antarctica.

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that dotted the planet's icy surface. In a study appearing today in Nature ...

Humans have been reshaping the environment for at least 10,000 years. But the Anthropocene is the name given to the specific ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

The new high came less than an hour after a previous high recorded earlier on Thursday afternoon when temperatures in Wisley, ...