Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of ...

Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote — and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic craters and villages of rock-hewn moai.

Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

A giant tortoise species believed extinct for more than a century has been formally confirmed alive. Genetic analysis ...

On Tuesday, Jan. 27, police confirmed 10-year-old Austen Keith Richardson and his grandmother, Yao Fang, had died after a landslide hit homes on Jan. 22. A second, separate landslide also struck a ...

Since the 1960s, James Turrell has been a pioneer of what he describes as “perceptual art,” exploring the dynamics of light, space, scale, and human feeling in a wide range of installations. His ...

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass extinctions have occurred, with five major mass extinctions being particularly ...

An illustration of Procoptodon goliah, a giant kangaroo that weighed up to about 550 pounds and went extinct around 40,000 years ago Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 For many people, ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient landscapes at heights of up to 8 meters. They had smooth trunk-like pillars and ...

A plant long presumed extinct in the wild has been rediscovered in Australia, ending nearly six decades without a confirmed sighting. Researchers say the small, slender shrub—Ptilotus senarius—has not ...