The investigation suggests that LUCA lived on Earth 4.2 billion years ago and had an immune system that could fight off ...

A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

In the sprawling landscapes of Sichuan Province, China, a remarkable discovery has brought to light the footprints of dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of murdering his wife, who has never been found after she disappeared nearly three years ago.

As the Ice Age ended, Mesolithic communities adapted to new environments, creating tools, art, and early settlements. This episode explores how these hunter-gatherers thrived across Europe, laying the ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in the clouds of gas and dust that swirl just beyond our solar system—almost ...

An Australian fossil reveals the first lamniform shark, measuring 20 feet long and living 15 million years earlier than believed.