The oldest piece of identified clothing — sandals found in southern Oregon — are older than the volcanic eruption, some 7,700 ...

Deep in the Colombian Amazon region of Serrania De La Lindosa, a roughly 12-mile stretch of rock is covered in a vast ...

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have long been destroyed.

Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

Sure, it’s a challenging trek, but once you’re standing on that summit marker – able to point to three different countries in one spin – you’ll realise that epic doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Parks Victoria banned new rock climbing routes in the state’s west because traditional owners ­believed it was a form of ...

Have you ever thought about exploring Australia? More and more people from around the globe are doing just that! Austral ...

Artem Shuba via Unsplash Nearly 5,000 years ago, if the ground rumbled and the sky grew dark, it would be impossible for ancient agricultural communities to know that miles away a volcano had erupted.

The solitary moors of Bodmin have an ethereal, timeless quality which makes it fitting that they host many fascinating ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy. Archaeologists have ...

Beacon Rock shoots 800 feet straight up out of the Columbia River. How did it get there? Sitting right on the edge of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington, Beacon Rock shoots 800 feet ...