Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

In the summer of 1900, a group of sponge divers off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island, stumbled upon a shipwreck that ...

The large flying reptiles known as pterosaur preyed on primitive fish that would have hard scale armour covering them.

The story of the human race is a story of technology. One of our ancestors created fire and passed that knowledge along to ...