Just a few years ago, explorers mapping the bottom of the Bay of Mecklenburg off northern Germany stumbled on something ...
This is part 1 of a three-part series that traces the origins of the Anthropocene - the current geological epoch that speaks bluntly to humanity's impact on the environment - and the unfolding 'Sixth ...
For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...
The Kentucky State Park System offers more than 300 miles of trails and as a result, winter hiking is popular at many parks. For example, Carter Caves SRP in Olive Hill — open seasonally Wednesdays ...
Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...
A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...
Many historians assume that these ancient “bone skates” were utilitarian devices, used for fast transit along frozen rivers ...
About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...
Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer.