For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

As the glaciers retreated and the seas rose to swallow the land bridges forever, a desperate race unfolded to repopulate a ...

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A comprehensive new study shows that Europe’s landscapes have been shaped by grasslands and open woodlands for more than 20 ...

Four huge glaciers could soon disappear entirely in the iconic state of California. They have existed for millennia and could ...

A massive limestone boulder was found miles from where it should be. Researchers quickly realized that a megatsunami was to ...

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...

The climate of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean was far more turbulent than previously thought—and a new study suggests that ...

In 2012, a wildfire ripped through 42 square kilometers of alpine moorland in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains, a range of ...

Fishermen in Thoothukudi raise alarm as large seaweed quantities wash ashore, blaming climate change. Separately, 8,000-12,000-year-old marine fossils were discovered inland, revealing the region's ...