The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notable and important formations scientists have discovered.
Archaeologists in Italy have found one of the oldest known cases of the bubonic plague, which has caused millions of deaths ...
The oldest known lizard has reclaimed its crown clade. A contentious fossil has been re-analyzed by paleobiologists and ...
An extinct carnivorous group known as gorgonopsians, which lived between 270 and 250 million years ago, laid eggs and had ...
This year, scientists were able to pull back the curtain on mysteries surrounding figures across history, both ...
When people who have lost homes, businesses, and a sense of safety are heard saying, "I was one of the lucky ones," what does ...
Found beneath a building in the town of Alkmaar, the animal bones had been used to fill in gaps between crumbling pieces of tile ...
New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the ...
Radiocarbon dated to the end of the Second Intermediate Period or the beginning of the New Kingdom, the mummy contained ...
A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.