On October 6, 1970, the deep-sea drilling vessel Glomar Challenger returned to port in Lisbon, Portugal, bearing a cargo that would revise history. During its...
A rare Stone Age cemetery on a Swedish island reveals that some of Europe’s last hunter-gatherers were buried not with their extremely close relations but...
Our oldest known vertebrate ancestors had four eyes to spot predators — and, my goodness, they were cute. Rare fossils from China have revealed that...
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake that triggered a devastating tsunami in eastern Japan was worsened by a thick layer of slippery clay, new research finds. The...
Vanishing lakes in southern Tibet may have triggered earthquakes in the region by “awakening” long-dormant faults in Earth’s crust, researchers say. The finding adds to...