researchers find 3,500-year-old rice remains in ritidian beach cave, indicating first settlers brought rice from the philippines.

The remains of 3,500-year-old rice were recently found in Guam — making it the earliest known evidence of rice in Remote Oceania.

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Ancient Karewa sediments hold clues about the transformation of Kashmir's climate over milennia, a new palaeoscience study ...

Avocado remains from El Gigante illustrate how ancient farmers domesticated crops to adapt to changing environments. The ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Of the 35 tools found, 32 were determined by scientists to have been modified at their base, with some possessing rounded ...