Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study.

Mono Lake, nestled in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada, is a haven for unique life forms. Its iconic tufa formations and thriving populations of brine shrimp and alkali flies showcase an ecosystem ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...

After no one matched all five numbers plus the Powerball in the New Year's Day drawing for $178 million, the jackpot jumped to $200 million for Saturday, Jan. 4. The winning numbers for the ...

Archaeologists Baffled after Discovering Gigantic Skull of a 200-million-year-Old Dinosaur, Say it is a Never-Before-Seen ...