Multiple ancient cultures converge at this city on the Silk Road in Central Asia, where historical attractions predate the ...

The activity beneath the Earth’s surface is often undetectable to us, but it has the power to shape land masses […] ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

A new study uncovered how ancient land shifts allowed elephants to cross from Africa to Asia millions of years ago.

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

Archaeologists uncovered 11,000-year-old pottery in Mongolia, pushing back the timeline of human innovation by nearly 2,000 ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...