One of the planet’s most dramatic extinctions was caused in part by ocean acidification, which has become a problem in our own era.
A hunting party in Nunavut stumbled upon a rare sight: a tree stump poking out of the permafrost. However it got there, the wood will likely tell scientists secrets of the distant past
One report says 200,000 years while another stated 300,000
It might just look like the imprint of a bat squashed into a rock, kind of like the imprint an unfortunate bird leaves when it collides with a window. But paleontologist Duncan McIlroy says this unassuming item is an amazing find.
Ancient stone inscriptions tell tales of a city called Mahendraparvata.
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of the lost city of Mahendraparvata deep in the Cambodian jungle.
As Netanyahu’s attempt to link the Philistines to the Palestinians show, DNA analysis of ancient humans is being harnessed for political purposes
Evidence of unusual solar activity that potentially represents three huge solar storms has been discovered in ancient Assyrian cuneiform tablets. The magnetic storms documented in astrological reports correspond to tree ring data indicating events took place around 660 BC.
Isotope found in seabed sediment points to clash of solar bodies near Mars, study suggests
The findings show how the ancient civilization adapted farming practices in the face of environmental challenges.
