Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

Around 33,000 years ago, Europe's climate cooled and a new human culture known as the Gravettians, known for hunting woolly mammoths with spears and crafting Venus figurines, spread across the ...

China's energy profile is a paradox. The country accounts for more than half of global coal use even as it builds the world's ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

In the remote agricultural region of Serrote do Letreiro in Paraíba, Eastern Brazil, researchers have uncovered a remarkable ...