Where was the evolutionary birthplace of modern humans? The East African Great Rift Valley has long been the favored contender – until today.
A controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans is gaining traction from research sites around the world.
One of the planet’s most dramatic extinctions was caused in part by ocean acidification, which has become a problem in our own era.
A hunting party in Nunavut stumbled upon a rare sight: a tree stump poking out of the permafrost. However it got there, the wood will likely tell scientists secrets of the distant past
One report says 200,000 years while another stated 300,000
It might just look like the imprint of a bat squashed into a rock, kind of like the imprint an unfortunate bird leaves when it collides with a window. But paleontologist Duncan McIlroy says this unassuming item is an amazing find.
Ancient stone inscriptions tell tales of a city called Mahendraparvata.
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of the lost city of Mahendraparvata deep in the Cambodian jungle.
As Netanyahu’s attempt to link the Philistines to the Palestinians show, DNA analysis of ancient humans is being harnessed for political purposes
Evidence of unusual solar activity that potentially represents three huge solar storms has been discovered in ancient Assyrian cuneiform tablets. The magnetic storms documented in astrological reports correspond to tree ring data indicating events took place around 660 BC.
