Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) led a fascinating study showing that ancient algae, specifically a type called Skeletonema marinoi, can survive in a ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs ... Scientists named the new wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis, partly for the sea monster from Greek mythology that stirred up wild whirlpools ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid ...

A newly discovered fossil from Germany is helping scientists understand how ancient marine reptiles called plesiosaurs evolved and spread across Europe nearly 180 million years ago. The fossil ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

PLA’s Southern Theatre Command conducted ‘routine patrol’, spokesman says, as Philippines and Japan hold naval drills with treaty ally US.

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere except the East Greenland Sea. Nearly all March monthly average extents since ...

Puffin Non-Fiction senior commissioning editors Tom Rawlinson and Phoebe Jascourt have made a series of middle-grade ...