Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Science is collaborative, painstaking and iterative, with progress slow and some unsung scientific heroes lost to time. But every once in a while, a key event, discovery or conceptual breakthrough has ...

Narrow, worn stairs beneath the 11th-century Pembroke Castle in Wales lead into a shadowy cavern where early humans once ...

As fewer Americans read the Bible literally, Adam and Eve is increasingly functioning less as a fixed doctrine and more as a ...

A new trail on Scotland's east coast takes travellers into Earth's ancient past, where scientists proved the planet was ...

The study found that Sindhis living on both sides of the border remain genetically closely related even after almost eight ...

An international team of archaeologists reports the discovery of a previously unknown Maya city hidden beneath a millennium ...

Aristotle shaped Greek philosophy, but some works attributed to him were written by Pseudo-Aristotle, extending his influence ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History sits in one of the most culturally rich neighborhoods in Ohio. You’ve got the ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...