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When UC Santa Barbara geology professor emeritus James Kennett and colleagues set out years ago to examine signs of …

Neanderthals are often depicted as having straight spines and poor posture. However, these prehistoric humans were more similar …

New University of Sydney research has revealed that the ancient Cambodian city of Angkor underwent a gradual decline …

Usually, soft-bodied species like spiders aren’t fossilized in rock-like animals with bones and teeth. More often, ancient spiders …

Excavations at two quarries in Wales, known to be the source of the Stonehenge bluestones, provide new evidence …

Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth has three (or four) layers — a crust, mantle, and core, which …

Total human carbon levels emissions could match those of Earth’s last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than …

An international team of researchers out of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, has demonstrated a new approach for …

What’s the coldest place you can think of? Temperatures on a winter day in Antarctica dip as low …

A small percentage of Americans, less than 9 percent, shared links to so-called “fake news” sites on Facebook …