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Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea.

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

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Bharath ‘Land’ing explores the deep relationship between land, identity, and conflict in the Indian subcontinent - from ...

The Jomon people share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

A groundbreaking genetic study confirms modern humans arrived in Australia approximately 60,000 years ago, settling a ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...