Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail Earth's oceans.

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago. Knowing how old Earth is can be more difficult to confirm because Earth's age is not only based on the age of rocks, but also the isotopic estimates of what ...

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The Red Sea began to form 30 million years ago as the African and Arabian tectonic plates pulled apart, or rifted. It was a deep valley dotted with lakes until the Mediterranean Sea flooded it 23 ...

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An exploding star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now narrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident. Earlier ...