Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

A rare encounter with a bizarre, prehistoric-looking insect raises the question—how has this ancient creature survived into ...

Finds at Alaska’s Holzman site show how Ice Age hunters, mammoths, and tools shaped the earliest journey into North America.

Giant 550 pound kangaroos could still hop scientists prove by studying fossil bones and calculating forces on ancient tendons ...

Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.

Hundreds of anglers make their way onto the ice each winter, hoping to take home one of these dinosaur-age fish. This year’s ...

Teeth belonging to the fearsome creatures have been discovered throughout the state. Now, they're up for consideration by the ...

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) welcomed a new Ice Age exhibit. “Giants of the Ice Age” features a wooly ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

Long before the North Sea existed, a vast landscape of rivers, forests, and plains connected Britain to continental Europe. Drawing on archaeology, geology, and climate science, this documentary ...

Their new study shows that Earth’s massive drop in temperature after the dinosaurs went extinct could have been caused by a large drop in calcium levels in the ocean. The study showed that the ...