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The climate warmed up almost as quickly 56 million years ago as it is doing now. When a huge amount of CO 2 entered the atmosphere in a short period of time, it led to large-scale forest fires and ...

This is the world 200 million years ago. No cell phones, electricity or even other humans. Trump picks up the phone and calls Sen. Elizabeth Warren Pentagon bought device through undercover operation ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, was announced in the early 2000s as a possible early ...

Twenty million years ago, this quiet creek was part of a vast ocean. In this video, we return to the very spot where my first shark tooth hunt began and push deeper into the woods than ever before.

Before the famously huge megalodon, another fearsome ocean predator roamed the seas. According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size ...

Two hundred million years ago, prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind. By Elisabetta Povoledo and Victor Mather Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Rome and Victor Mather from New ...

In the early 1990s, the Hubble Space Telescope picked up something odd in the local clouds that surround our solar system. An unusually large number of electrons had been ripped apart from the atoms ...

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a lab at Winona State University in one of the rarest and largest fossil ...