Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while its predators suffocated to death. Its eggs played a ...

Using synchrotron X-ray CT scans of a fossilized, intact embryo, researchers found evidence that the plant-eating mammal ...

Each year I return to East Africa to show friends the spectacular game parks and wildlife of the Mara and the Serengeti and ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Twelve thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age loosened its grip on the North American West, hunter-gatherers met to trade, forge alliances, and gamble. They tossed small, flat pieces of carved bone ...

New Zealand is in the top 10% of the OECD for infrastructure spending, but we are in the bottom 10% for what we get for our ...

You know a place has stories to tell when it’s been attracting visitors for over 10,000 years, and Big Bone Lick State ...

Oakland University Is Honoring Laurie Marker This spring, Oakland University will award Laurie Marker an honorary degree in ...

Approximately 300,000 years ago, humans living in what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria began to stop ...