Researchers found high-resolution evidence of a future earthquake threat.

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago.During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago.During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden ...

In what the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) is calling an “unprecedented” discovery in Marliens, France, near Dijon, excavations revealed a series of ...

The coprolite, preserved in the Chañares Formation, is dated to the first stage of the Triassic period, about 236 million years ago. ... told Science. “Ancient dung, ...

Instead of putting the pedal to the metal, a team of scientists from Japan and Taiwan are putting the paddle to the water–for science. The team used time-period-accurate tools to create canoes ...

The usable information from this period relied on only a few measurements conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, using an older type of radiocarbon-dating technology.

Researchers created a highly detailed 3D model of a 365-million-year-old ammonite fossil from the Jurassic period by combining advanced imaging techniques, revealing internal muscles that have ...

Item 1 of 2 An artist's reconstruction of the tusked and pig-like Permian Period creature Gordonia, a forerunner of mammals, is seen in this image released by the University of Edinburgh.