It’s hard to picture now, but Earth’s deep blue oceans were once green. According to a new study by Japanese researchers, ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A mysterious fossilized creature discovered more than a century ago has finally been decoded, offering stunning insights into ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

700 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean was a hydrothermal field, often described as a geological area where hot ...

“This area has just the right conditions for preserving ancient bones,” said Pratas ... “Streamlined, fast, and fully adapted to life in the sea.” With this discovery, Portugal strengthens its place ...

The rapid burial of these ancient sea creatures in an environment with low oxygen levels allowed for the fossils to form in extraordinary three-dimensional detail, giving visitors an unparalleled view ...

For example it is unnecessary to explain, in a paragraph about the pebble beaches of Dieppe, that ‘chalk is a limestone made from the skeletons of ancient sea-creatures forming sedimentary strata of ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

The emergence of the Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age during a period of massive upheaval remains a mystery.

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...