Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...
Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...
Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.
More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...
Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.