In 2017, astronomers on board the International Space Station photographed two eerie islands in Ethiopia. Dek and Daga lie in Lake Tana, whose copper-tinted waters have been important geographically ...

From the open plains of the Pleistocene, sabre-toothed cats ruled as apex predators, sharing their world with early human ancestors. Cardiologist: 9 American foods you 'couldn't pay me to eat'—after ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science. “For a ...

The frozen, barren soil of the Arctic isn’t as lifeless as it looks. Locked inside the permafrost is a strikingly diverse community of microbes. They’ve been asleep for millennia, alive, but inactive, ...

Vascular plants of high-elevation cliffs and rock outcrops were sampled on 42 peaks in the Southern Appalachians. Species found were predominantly native, summer-flowering, herbaceous perennials.

Genome sequencing of a human Late Pleistocene Fossil in southwest China dating back around 14,000 years is helping shed light on the ancestry of the very first Americans. The mystery surrounding the ...

In the scope of Solimões-Amazon fluvial system between the Negro and Madeira tributaries, three levels of Quaternary fluvial terraces overlie the Alter do Chão and Novo Remanso formations further than ...