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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

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.

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

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