Hundreds of million of years ago our planet looked a whole lot different, as the continents we know today were still touching ...

New archaeological research on the Tangier Peninsula reveals significant cultural links between Europe and Africa during the Bronze Age.

A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

Instead, the study suggests, Deinosuchus belonged to an ancient lineage that split off before the last common ancestor of today’s alligators and crocodiles, carrying characteristics that are ...

Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People cast shadows on the ancient Pueblo ruins of ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of 5,000-year-old remains apparently belonging to a high-society woman from an ancient Peruvian civilization. The tomb was found in Aspero, an area in ...

Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

This steady subduction shaped much of the planet’s ancient geography. Beyond Pangea, in the surrounding Panthalassa realm, a different pattern emerged. Here, subduction happened radially outward ...

Google Maps for Android has received a major redesign aimed at enhancing the user experience with a cleaner and more intuitive layout. The latest update introduces a floating sheet interface for the ...

The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research suggests. Mummified cats (Felis catus) were such a common offering to the ...

adding that the find confirms the existing scientific idea that ancient Los Angeles was once underwater. The oldest of the fossils were trapped within a fossilized algae known as diatomite.The ...