A recent discovery off the coast of the Canary Islands has reignited interest in one of history’s oldest mysteries: the legend of Atlantis. While the existence of Atlantis has long been debated, ...

Appealing to collectors of Earth's ancient treasures, Heritage Auctions is selling rare meteorites, fossils, and gemstones.

and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole. "We have exquisite information about ...

More than 500 bat fossils have been discovered at the Messel Pit UNESCO World Heritage Site over 42 years. A new study, ...

After earning his Ph.D. at Yale, he began excavating in Wyoming's Clarks Fork Basin, documenting the meteoric rise of mammals at the beginning of the Eocene, after the extinction of the dinosaurs ...

DES MOINES, IOWA — The National Pork Board (NPB) recently announced that a grant for pork producers would be expanded, which ...

"India then was a tropical island, surrounded by oceans. The Himalayas were yet to form. It was the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal ...

The Brett project (20,043 hectares) covers low-sulfidation epithermal-style gold mineralization hosted in Eocene Penticton ...

South west of Cairo, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, there lie treasures even more ancient than the pharaohs’ tombs — and travellers can visit them to see one of the great mysteries of evolution ...

The Houston Toad was first discovered in the 1940s and became the first amphibian to be added to the endangered species list ...

Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...