A new study reveals that a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by two different carnivores: a crocodile and a shark.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Inch by inch, as massive glaciers crept over frozen land toward an ice-covered sea, they scoured the ... say may have shaped ...

Plesiosaurs were long-necked reptiles that lived in the ocean during the time of the dinosaurs. While the area where this fossil was found—called the Posidonienschiefer Formation near Holzmaden—is ...

The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert ... suggesting that there is more to be learnt about ancient human life here. We are part of an interdisciplinary research team of physical geographers, ...

Archaeologists find evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed over 100 kilometers of open sea to reach Malta 8,500 years ago.

"We saw no sea floor. We only saw life. There was one sponge on top of ... strings covering the mountaintop were the remnants of ancient tube worms — and many of the tubes were emptied out.

Access to the sea is very important for trade ... who introduces us to the city-states of Ancient Greece and shares facts about the daily life of the citizens of Athens, the most powerful of ...

The cores contained sediments from ancient coastal wetlands that formed and drowned as the present-day North Sea flooded in, leaving behind thin (10–30 centimetres) layers of decayed organic ...