As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for ...

Discover how researchers uncovered the oldest water on Earth and what it revealed about life billions of years ago.

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

An ancient Maya structure was likely built around communal astronomical observations, but the identity of a mysterious woman ...

Researchers discovered that ancient peat bogs grew rapidly when the Southern Westerly Winds suddenly shifted thousands of ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling our own. By examining a 67-million-year-old fossil, researchers from UC ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

NASA has announced the discovery of potential signs of ancient life on Mars. The revelation came during a press conference ...

Florida might seem about as far from modern-day Egypt as possible - and just a few thousand years from the end of the sprawling Ancient Egyptian Empire.

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...