Deep in the Amazon rainforest are patches of mysterious soil. Standing in contrast with the typical reddish soil that ...

Earth's shallow ocean contained oxygen earlier than expected, rewriting the history of the origin of life during the "Boring ...

From Saruman to Gandalf, these are the most intelligent characters from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands have launched Paleolatitude.org, an online tool that ...

Millions of years ago, the land you’re currently sitting on was located at a completely different latitude. Your backyard ...

Although photographs have become ubiquitous in an age of selfies and social media, they still possess their timeless power to ...

Born Abraham Salomon Jakubowicz in Leipzig, Germany, Eddie was a survivor of Buchenwald and Auschwitz. Near the end of the ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe ...

Some parts of this epic coral reef system weren’t even where the greatest reefs are found today. But remnants have survived.

Fossils fascinated Sir David Attenborough throughout his childhood. The BBC retraces the steps of Sir David's formative experiences roaming the British countryside.

The newly found fossils in Morocco are altering current knowledge regarding the movement and evolution of dinosaurs. The ...