When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

A study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters challenges a widely held assumption about the thermal state of Earth ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

An archaeological study reveals how ancient hunter-gatherer groups lived—and survived—more than a thousand years ago in the ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens.

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

This discovery didn’t come from a jungle expedition - it came from smuggled scales seized in Hong Kong. Genetic testing showed the material didn’t match any known pangolin species, but instead a ...