Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back to further in the Cretaceous period than was previously known WELLINGTON, ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal shark that lived 115 million years ago, long before Megalodon. Using rare fossilized vertebrae and modern imaging, researchers reconstructed this ancient apex ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were wild cats.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...