Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ago. Scientists say it's a symptom of ...

A trail of 23,000-year-old footprints in New Mexico is rewriting the story of when—and how—humans first arrived in North ...

Scientists have performed a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in Siberia. The female mammoth, nicknamed ...

Across the world, eerie "death pits" have entombed thousands of creatures, creating fossilized mysteries that scientists are ...

As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more ...

Around the world, on separate continents with no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming ...

To hear US President Donald Trump tell it, his administration accomplished more in the 43 days since he proclaimed “the dawn of the Golden Age of America” than most administrations accomplish in four ...

Mr. Trump marks the role of tariffs in the triumph, and there’s no doubt that they featured in America’s rise to global glory. Yet Mr. Trump overlooks another, even more crucial aspect of Gilded Age ...

They were common during the Pleistocene Epoch ... "In fact, camels originally came from North America. If you were here before the Ice Age and up through the Miocene, there were a number of ...

Sea levels in the late Pleistocene were significantly lower than they are today, making bare a landmass called Sundaland that connected swaths of Southeast Asia during the last ice age ...

That's right, just like the popular TV game show, we've gathered a list of “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” questions and ...