Just a few years ago, explorers mapping the bottom of the Bay of Mecklenburg off northern Germany stumbled on something ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface lies a mysterious underwater chasm that has captivated scientists worldwide. The Dragon Hole, ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains the evolution of the people and landscape of Bandhavgarh ...

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Many historians assume that these ancient “bone skates” were utilitarian devices, used for fast transit along frozen rivers ...

It is no secret that the tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest carnivorous creatures to walk the earth millions of years ago, but a new study suggests it may have taken the predator decades to ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer.