Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

The cemetery, therefore, is not a foreign intrusion into Harar’s history. It is a record of Harar’s openness—a testament to the city’s role as a place of encounter. It does not diminish Harari ...

Pandas, think back to your favorite subject in school. Maybe it was English, science, math… or if you were feeling adventurous, geography. The subject itself might be easy to remember, but the actual ...

Caribbean forts, Danish streets, adobe plazas, Bavarian facades, and Pacific traditions—these U.S. getaways deliver a ...

Because that’s what the Mapparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library is: a three-story tall, stained-glass globe that you walk through on a bridge, and it’s one of the most mind-bending experiences you ...

Sometimes the most unbelievable places are the ones hiding in the most unexpected locations, and Onyx Cave in Cave City, Kentucky is proof that you don’t need to travel to distant continents to find ...

When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...

There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.