Giant icebergs once floated off the UK coast, study reveals
Thousands of years ago, massive icebergs, like those seen today in Antarctica, were drifting just 90 miles off the coast of the United Kingdom.
A...
Scientists rewrite history of the Phoenicians with surprising DNA discovery
A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and their descendants, the...
Melting Ice Age may have supercharged Earth’s movements and volcanoes
At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise...
Scientists rethink how farming began—It wasn’t just the weather
A major new study is changing how we understand one of the biggest turning points in human history: the shift from hunting and gathering...
Lost stone age secrets: Ancient European toolmaking found in China
A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans in East Asia.
Researchers from the University...
How sunscreen and clothes helped humans survive a magnetic disaster 41,000 years ago
Around 41,000 years ago, something strange happened to Earth’s magnetic field: the North Pole wandered over Europe, and the planet’s protective shield against solar...
Scientists find ancient Martian beaches, revealing evidence of a lost ocean
Mars, the dusty red planet we know today, may have once had ocean waves washing onto sandy beaches.
New research using data from China’s Zhurong...
People stocked mountain lake in Europe with fish over 1,300 years ago
New research has revealed that people may have brought fish to a high mountain lake in Europe much earlier than anyone thought—possibly as far...
How the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life bounce back
About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, along with around 70% of all life in...
Dinosaurs weren’t dying out—We just can’t find their fossils, study says
For decades, scientists have debated whether dinosaurs were already struggling before the asteroid strike that wiped them out 66 million years ago.
But a new...