An ancient bird that swam in Antarctica’s balmier waters 69 million years ago may be the earliest known waterfowl on Earth, scientists ... iaai was first described about 20 years ago, from ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the ...

According to Live Science, the lakes formed about 20,000 years ago because of a hotspot beneath the supercontinent of Pangaea that existed 300 million years ago. The supercontinent broke apart to ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest tools ever used on Earth, and they weren’t created by direct human ancestors ... which was a pre-human species that lived over three million years ...

The mystery of the Indian Ocean gravity hole: A chapter in the evolving history of Earth Up to 20 million years ago existed the Indian Ocean gravity hole in that time, while then to-date nothing by ...

The sea may have been refilled by a gigantic "megaflood" some 5.33 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The so-called Zanclean Megaflood ...

New evidence reveals that Homo erectus could survive in extreme environments like deserts over 1.2 million years ago, challenging the notion that only Homo sapiens were ... Mekonnen, Wenran Zhao and ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could ... who first detected the planet two years ago. Gabriel Pérez / IAC Dubbed HD 20794 ...