Over time, cinnabar washed away from rainfall and seeped into the surrounding soil and water. But while a contaminant like ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

In 1996, after gaining permission from the Greek government, Hale and De Boer made their first expedition to Delphi. They ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

K’gari’s iconic lakes have existed for tens of thousands of years—but they haven’t always been full. New research shows that ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

Rotello has worked with Patti Smith and was friends with Hilly Kristal, the late owner of CBGB, the iconic club where Smith, Blondie and the Ramones got their start.

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.