Learn how early humans made the 60-mile crossing from Europe to Malta, navigating at least partially by stars.

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake that struck Japan in 1923 laid bare the need for a nationwide information system to keep citizens safe. Two years later, stations in three cities—Tokyo, Osaka and ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...