Human and animal bones were found inside the 1,500-year-old Bromeswell bucket. A double-sided comb was also discovered.

Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or ...

Geologists find giant mosasaur vertebra in Mississippi, a marine predator that ruled the seas 66 million years ago, ...

The finding provides a psychedelic trip into the heart of pre-Incan power at Chavín de Huántar, where psychoactive substances ...

specialized bone-cracking back teeth, and propensity for preying on large herbivores. It was just one of the remarkable animals that once roamed the Americas, along with immense cats, giant short ...

Every chip of flint or shard of bone builds a narrative of how early humans used tools to feed themselves and cooperated to ...

The discovery of a weapon in a Russian cave challenges conventional ideas about the technical capabilities of Neanderthals.

Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...