Archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals who were hunted and mauled to death by a pack of hyenas in a...

A symbiotic relationship between two marine lifeforms has just been discovered thriving at the bottom of the ocean, after disappearing...

Approximately 100 million years ago, fierce predators, flying reptiles, and crocodile-like creatures made the Sahara the most dangerous...

A teeny tiny fossil found in the Scottish Highlands could be a missing link in the evolutionary history of animals. Dated to around a...

Asteroids that smash directly into Earth’s surface can cause extensive damage, but, as new evidence uncovered in east Antarctica...

In one of the countless caves in Mexico, scientists were able to isolate DNA samples that belonged to extinct bear species. This is the...

It is reported that eight bone tools were found during the survey of the Riwi Cave, located in the so-called Mimbi Caves – the historical...

The discovery of countless rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India has caused excitement among...

Paleolithic cuisine was anything but lean and green, according to a recent study on the diets of our Pleistocene ancestors. For a good 2...

The four-story labyrinth of galleries in Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro cave has long been a magnet for all sorts of humans. Neanderthals came...

Did humans migrate to America 100,000 years earlier than historians suggest? This discovery from 2017 put a large question mark on the...

Some of the deepest parts of the Black Sea are still responding to climate changes prompted by the last ice age, scientists have...

Approximately 430,000 years ago, a meteorite exploded over Antarctica. The only reason we know about it now is because scientists have...

Although Göbekli Tepe is perhaps one of humankind’s most impressive architectural feats, there are numerous equally stumping structure...

Figuring out when the earliest human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, since it was...

The further back in time you go, the sparser the archaeological record grows. Many materials used by humans - wood, leather, fabric -...

Meet Cretodus Houghtonorum. This is the 91-million-year-old fossilized shark discovered entirely by chance in Kansas, taking...

An ancient site located in northern Syria is one of the rare sites which dates to the Younger Dryas period. Located not far from the...

It was a tough fundraising pitch: Martin Bizzarro, a cosmochemist at the University of Copenhagen, needed some $500,000 to buy—and then...

A group of researchers has discovered conclusive evidence of a cosmic impact that most likely destroyed one of the earliest human...