Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much ...

ASI excavations near Govardhan Hill in Deeg, Rajasthan, uncovered a dried riverbed and ancient settlements, potentially ...

Archaeologists excavating ancient sites across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste have unearthed stone tools and marine remains.

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

Scientists uncover how humans cultivated avocado in ancient Honduras, thousands of years before staple crops like maize and ...

While Fringe did a good job of tying its main plot points, there are still some unanswered questions that keep fans up at ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

In the heart of Rajasthan's Deeg district, archaeologists from the ASI have stumbled upon an ancient palaeochannel that may ...