Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more ...

What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

How and when did dinosaurs first emerge and spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago? That question has for ...

Hundreds of perforated Cambrian shells reveal distinctive predator-prey dynamics in the ocean 517 million years ago.

Four giant herbivores and one predator walked across the same spot in modern-day England. “It’s the closest we’ll get to a time machine,” said one of the lead excavators.

Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million ...

Brazilian composer Tonhino Geraes, 62, is seeking royalties from the pop singer’s 2015 track “Million Years Ago” from her third album, 25. Written by Adele and her frequent collaborator Greg ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...