Today, the Bay of Biscay has been swallowed by the sea, but in ancient times, it was an important path for hunter-gatherers.

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of ...

A solar radiation storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago, showering the planet with high-energy particles and leaving a spike in ...

A study used sensitive satellite measurements to look at the ground of the 28 most populous U.S. cities. All of them are ...