History News

Bones found in Shropshire, England provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in North Western Europe.

More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes.

Horse was primarily a forest-dwelling browser living in the area between 15 and 18 million years ago.

Archaeologists from the University of South Carolina and East Carolina University have located two large cannons from a sunken Confederate gunboat in the Pee Dee River.

An research team returned recently from a drilling trip in Siberia, where they retrieved Arctic cores going back further than ever before collected, information they call “of absolutely unprecedented significance” for understanding past climate.

Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy forests.

A previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that led to global mass extinction 260 million years ago has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Leeds.

For the very first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales have been positively identified.

4000-year-old skeleton represents both the earliest archaeological evidence for human infection with Mycobacterium leprae in the world and the first evidence for the disease in prehistoric India.

There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected.