Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the region's summits, ...

Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

Paleontologists discovered the oldest ant species on the planet, 113 million years old and with scythe-shaped jaws.

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

In a nutshell Stone Age humans extensively harvesting whale products 20,000 years ago — roughly 1,000 years earlier than ...

Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow ...

When fossilized, the layered microbial structures are known as stromatolites ... Antcliffe and his colleagues found that the oldest convincing animal fossils are sponge spicules found in Iran ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after ...

Playing the song for the last 25 years, fans received a special treat when Metallica traveled to the stadium to play the song live, causing the fans to set off the Richter scale. Currently on ...

A diverse international team of scientists has now made a remarkable discovery: The world's oldest known relatives of salmon and carp lived in this extreme environment. "These discoveries suggest ...

“They are as old as the oldest stars in the universe,” says Carme Gallart of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, who reports the findings today in the journal Nature Astronom ...