Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Researchers identified a repeatedly used campfire including heated clay, heat-shattered flint handaxes and iron pyrite ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle East, dating back approximately 115,000 years before the Ice Age ...

Experts suggest that the world's oldest dinosaurs could be concealed in the planet's most remote and inaccessible regions. New research by University College London and the UK's Natural History Museum ...

Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered new evidence which suggests humankind's ability to master fire is some 350,000 years ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

A UC Berkeley-led analysis of tree mortality after two recent Amazonian droughts shows that “hot drought” conditions, which are becoming more frequent, are leading to tree dieoffs and reducing the ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between ...