New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Tiny chunks of 115-million-year-old Japanese amber reveal a massive dinosaur-era tsunami hidden beneath the waves.

Aboard te Falkor (too) research vessel, a 35-day trek to the South Sandwich Islands led to the discovery of new marine species.

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago.

In a significant development, scientists have found what they think could be evidence of a devastating tsunami concealed in ...