Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

This documentary explores the prehistoric creatures that once roamed the land now known as Britain. Fossil evidence uncovers a world of predators, coastal hunters, and early dinosaurs shaped by ...

Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep in the water some species lived, or even how long the Sun was out! Hosted by ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

Ancient people may have jump-started wine fermentation not with fresh grapes, but by soaking naturally sun-dried raisins.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest chemical traces of life on Earth using a new machine learning method that identifies ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for ...

Ancient peat bogs show that past shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds transformed carbon storage on Earth. Scientists say ...