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 ...

Australian and US scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a Northern Territory museum. The new species ...

For some people, the very thought of the ocean is a scary one. And even if you haven’t got a phobia of sea animals or thalassophobia, it does get pretty eerie the deeper you think about it. I ...

In 1785, a Spanish official named Don Diego Ruiz was looking for illegal tobacco plantations in the Papantla region of Mexico (then called New Spain), near the modern-day city of Veracruz, when he ...