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.

Are there really ancient linguistic connections between Ancient Greek and Polynesian languages? What do these reveal about ...

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

No other Indian fruit can match the mango for its historical significance, its sociocultural importance and its almost ...

Some, including conservationist Kay Van Damme, have called it the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean and along with other experts, he is warning that millions of years of evolution on Socotra could be ...

This article traces the contours of climate colonialism in the Indian Ocean, examining how large scale green deals risk reproducing dependency even as they promise autonomy.

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a new study published in the journal Science. A team of researchers ...

Canberra: In a new study published in Science Advances, the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands was uncovered – at an ancient cave site on Guam in the Mariana Islands of western ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Remote cave discovery shows ancient voyagers brought rice across 2,300 km of Pacific Ocean by Hsiao-chun Hung, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.