Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...