“We do not know, if the climate had not been influenced by human activity, whether these glaciers could have survived this interglacial period and not vanished completely.

Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

At about 1.6 Myr ago, glacial–interglacial δ 13 C variations and dissolution of CaCO 3 in the tropical Atlantic indicate the first substantial decrease in North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

In this video, we take you on a journey to the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when Earth looked vastly different from today.

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

It was not the first period the Edmonton Oilers had hoped for in this do-or-die Game 6 against the Florida Panthers.