The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones ...

In humanity’s longest prehistoric migration, groups of daring people walked over 20,000 kilometres (12,427 miles) from North ...

The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North ...

Ancient migration between wild horse populations in America and Asia show how ecosystems adapt to survive cataclysmic change ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.