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 ...

Big islands mean big opportunities to find somewhere magical, all for yourself. To those who think the world has been “done”, ...

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, ...

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Scientists from the University of York confirm that the well-preserved Tumat puppies were actually ancient wolf cubs - not ...