Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...

O ne billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

For a country such as Canada, which has no military-related nuclear waste, this fuel waste is undoubtedly the most toxic ...

A new study mapped continental groundwater flow, revealing that rain and snowmelt travel much farther and deeper underground ...

The longest-lived U.S. executive, Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. “He was an ... Grandson Jason Carter, who now chairs the center's governing board, said, “It's amazing what you can cram ...

Jimmy Carter passed away Sunday at 100, the oldest living president in the history of the United States. He was the only president to pass the century mark, and one of just six in history to reach ...

Visionaries of 1925 made their best guesses about the 21st century. Predictions included world peace, food shortages and ...

A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years ...

A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill ...

They carried as many as 100 million seeds — which could grow into trees and flowers amid Abu Dhabi's greenery. The spectacular event, which started 10pm, was one of many surprises that ...