Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial ...

Earth is not warming in a neat, even gradient. While the planet as a whole continues to heat up, one vast swath of the globe ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

When danger approaches, many creatures seem to follow the ancient proverb that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Researchers have recently been finding subtle ways that animals communicate with ...

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Researchers have reclassified a long-misidentified fossil from New Mexico as Ahshiselsaurus wimani, a newly recognized giant duck-billed dinosaur that offers fresh insights into hadrosaur evolution ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

This is where the paradox emerges: the very cognitive abilities that allow humans to innovate, plan, and manipulate the ...