The research team unraveled the secret behind how sea silk maintains its unchanging golden hue over time, discovering that ...

The incredible number of shiny shell beads found in the Montelirio tomb reveal an ancient economy able to support large-scale ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

Using a sophisticated statistical model, they reconstructed sea surface temperatures and atmospheric CO 2 levels over a 6-million-year period that covered two hyperthermals, the Paleocene-Eocene ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

By analyzing foram shells recovered in drill cores, study led by University of Utah geologists links rapid climate change that led to thermal maxima 50 million years ago to rising CO2 levels.

An iconic and much-loved ancient sea monster has been revealed to be an entirely new and "very odd" species of plesiosaur—solving a nearly 40-year-old fossil mystery.. Traskasaura sandrae, which ...

Historians recently unveiled their findings about an ancient purple dye factory located in modern-day Israel — revealing a glimpse into life during biblical times. In an article recently ...

Mountains of shells. Previous studies have shown that Georgia’s barrier islands were formed from shifting sea levels, currents, and sand deposits, possibly starting as long as 110,000 years ago ...

But after scouring ancient garbage piles near one such popina in Mallorca, ... Amid the refuse were 165 thrush bones alongside other common food remains like sea shells as well as fish and pig bones.