By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method ...

A new study has shed new light on ancient seafarers and their advanced maritime technology, challenging previous beliefs on ...

Scientists from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have uncovered new evidence that water once flowed beneath the surface ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest chemical evidence of life on Earth in a discovery that could revolutionise our ...

An international team of scientists have uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of Earth’s ancient history.

While there is fossil evidence of life older than 3.3bn years, this is the first time that its molecular chemical fingerprints have been detected through high-tech sleuthing.

A simple turn of the wrist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2023 has unveiled a centuries-old mystery about ancient Roman craftsmen. Washington State University art history professor ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Neanderthals, the ancient group of archaic humans didn't experience a 'true extinction', scientists in Italy and Switzerland ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...