Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to ...

Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

New research indicates Dargan Shelter was occupied as early as the last Ice Age and repeatedly visited during this cold period.

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Arizona have analyzed fossilized footprints found at ...

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.

By Dean Murray Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in failure?

A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are around 23,000 years old.