All About the Elusive $2 Million Treasure Hunt That May Have Claimed Another Life At least five people have died in ... 13-Year-Old Disappeared 50 Years Ago and Her Remains Were Just Identified ...

Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more ...

The alligator gar is a unique and ancient species of fish that has captured the attention of scientists and anglers alike.

It's the story of how people came to be here at all and their struggle for survival in a dramatically changing environment. It begins nearly one million years ago. Britain's unique location - between ...

Ever since the Pre-Cambrian (600 million years ago), ice ages have occurred at widely ... The most recent period of glaciation, which many people think of as the "Ice Age", was at its height ...

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India ... The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate ... is that all modern people are ultimately of African ...

He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau as a writer ... The creatures likely made the footprints around 113 million years ago. "Due to the excessive drought conditions this past summer, the ...

which ended approximately 66 million years ago (after a meteor strike, many scientists believe, eliminated the majority of life on Earth). For most of the Cretaceous, Canada’s prairie provinces ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest ...