Study finds 3-billion-year-old crystals on Mauritius tied to hidden microcontinent “Mauritia,” supporting 19th-century legends of a lost land beneath the Indian Ocean.

For perspective, that’s so ancient that when these rocks were forming, fish were still considered evolutionary overachievers.

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

"A big goal of the exhibit was the (Pequots) wanted to share the history of their people, but also reinforce the idea that Pequots are ... still here, despite everything that has happened to them." ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Portugal to India in 1497–1499 established the first direct sea route between Europe and ...