Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

In northern Guatemala, Tikal's ancient stone temples still stand tall. Nature surrounds what history left behind.

Three people, including a child, have died after a two-story building collapsed in Soweto, South Africa. The incident happened early Sunday morning.

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Along the coast of South Africa, strange rocky formations quietly grow in places where life seems unlikely to survive. These ...

A 476,000-year-old wooden structure uncovered in Zambia predates Homo sapiens by centuries, showcasing ancient construction ...

The new study tallies how microbialites take carbon and turn it into fresh layers of calcium carbonate. These structures then use photosynthesis (the same way that plants use the sun to make food) and ...

Ancient living rocks along South Africa’s coast are thriving in harsh conditions, rapidly growing while storing surprising amounts of carbon.

Like a toy on a string, the timing of cat domestication has been a moving target. Now researchers have pounced on a new timeline suggesting that tame descendants of African wildcats left the continent ...

An international team of archaeologists from Italy, Spain and Tunisia has been excavating Henchir el Begar since 2023. Ca' Foscari University of Venice Ancient Romans were big fans of olive oil, ...

Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by conquest and loss to become a bustling urban center of more than 2 million residents. Once the heart of the powerful Kingdom of ...