Sometimes, in order to look to the future, it is necessary to take a look at the past. In the field of science, this idea is ...

The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

The U.S. military unearthed data about rising sea levels in the early 1950s — and has been closely watching this threat to ...

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...