Pangaea looked nothing like you remember from school - this attempt to rebuild it might change how you see the world ...

In a stunning scientific breakthrough, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have discovered a living fossil in one of California’s untouched mountain lakes—a microscopic, ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Scientists in Antarctica have dug out ice that can be from as far back as 1.2 million years. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to researcher Carlo Barbante, about what he hopes to learn from the ice.

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlands, two million years ago Diego Rodríguez Robredo. Archaeologists are rewriting the story of an early human child ...

A study published in 2023 suggests that nearly 1 million years ago, humanity almost ceased to exist. This potential mass extinction event was discovered by researchers when they began analyzing ...

In geologic terms, a million years ago was the Pleistocene age (2.5 million years BC to 11,711 years BC), and Earth was five to 10 degrees colder than it is today.

Grass: It's What's For Dinner (3.5 Million Years Ago) : The Salt If you want to go paleo in your diet, invest in a lawn mower. An examination of fossilized teeth from early humans and their ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...