Researchers have found ancient communities of microbes that have been buried deep, for a hundred million years! This discovery might be the oldest living thing on Earth, and could even expand the ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

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If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age.

The discovery of Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells is giving UNSW scientists new insight into the animals and ecosystems that existed millions of years ago, long before Australia separated ...

Learn how several working groups with their own carving techniques built the iconic moai of Easter Island.

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight ...

New findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not ...

Archaeologists excavating a remote island cave have found unexpected evidence that ancient humans hunted with partially ...

Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move suggests that different types of hominins lived close by in harmony ...

Located on a plateau overlooking the fertile plains often referred to as the “cradle of civilisation”, the Unesco World ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...