More than two kilometers beneath the boreal forests of northern Ontario, water has been seeping through billion-year-old rock ...

Early eukaryotes, the lineage that later gave rise to animals, plants and fungi, may have depended on oxygen from the start.

This Set of Fossils Could Be Our Oldest Ancestor Paleogeneticist Qiaomei Fu, of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

There's a new T. rex in the fossil record, only this one terrorized the ancient seas. New research led by scientists at the ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to ...

The climate of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean was far more turbulent than previously thought—and a new study suggests that ...

Researchers at SMU and the Perot Museum have identified a new species of mosasaur, a 'T. rex of the sea' that lived alongside ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Sophisticated new techniques produced a breakthrough.

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, scientists believe they have cracked the ...