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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.

Rare fossils from Illinois are challenging one of evolution's oldest assumptions and revealing an unexpected path taken by ...

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Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

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 ...