Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect ...

Now, a new study finds evidence of this flood in ridges along the Sicily Sill and in channels that likely formed from this sudden and powerful deluge. Ages, epochs, periods, and even eras are often ...

It’s more important than ever to control who has access to personal data related to your reproductive health. Here's how to track your menstrual cycle without leaving an online trail. I review ...

Among other mandates, the Clinton-era order entailed consistent enforcement ... even greater danger from pollution and the dire, real-time consequences of the climate crisis,” Leslie Fields ...