At the bottom sat a ring of fire-cracked stones, a primitive furnace used for heat-treating stone to improve its workability.

Hidden from the usual tourist trail, Plymouth is North Carolina’s best-kept secret. Adventure and history await around every ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Scientists settle a major evolutionary mystery as new research reveals the comb jelly, not the sea sponge, was the first animal to branch off on Earth ...

A footprint discovered near Brisbane nearly seven decades ago has been dated to 230 million years ago, making it the earliest ...