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 depressing than we thought.

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 ...

Pavarotti himself couldn’t sing such praises as President Trump has lately been warbling in respect of the Gilded Age. We share the sentiment. “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913,” he exudes. Mr ...

A deer hunter's discovery of a mammoth tusk at a West Texas ranch has prompted several questions, such as "Can I own one?" and "Were mammoths common in the state?" Dr. Aaron Pan, the executive ...

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 ...