A new study published Wednesday (Oct. 14) in the journal Science Advances suggests some of the first people in North America lived through extreme climate change at the peak of the last ice age. Researchers studied ancient pollen locked in...

One of America's largest meteor craters is around 100 million years younger than scientists thought, which means the ancient impact coincided with — and potentially contributed to — one of the biggest global extinction events in Earth's history, according to...

The Bering Land Bridge formed 35,000 years ago, eventually disappearing under rising sea levels around 12,000 years ago. But the humans and creatures who inhabited the territory have left behind plenty of archaeological evidence of their presence. The article titled...

Two researchers may have opened floodgates on the debate over why humans can run marathons, swim the English Channel or dive a hundred meters and back on a single breath, and their ape cousins can’t. Humans evolved endurance for feats...