The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

The analysis of the periods in which the testimonies were recorded indicates that the great majority of the analyzed century ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Nobody doubts that human activities have dramatically transformed Earth, so why has there been no official recognition of the ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

At the site of Kach Kouch, in the province of Tetouan, a group of Moroccan researchers unearthed the first known ...