By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

If this holds true, the conventional definition of what counts as a continent might need a rewrite. The map of Earth ... more concrete evidence of an ancient continental crust.

When people think of ancient burials in North Africa, they often picture Egypt's pyramids and monuments. But new discoveries ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new ...

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

Earth’s continents are under attack from within. Deep carbon chemistry and mantle dynamics are silently eroding landmasses, ...

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the ...

EL PAÍS received exclusive access to the latest developments and updates in the Ancient American Art section of the ...