Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the region's summits, ...

Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

Paleontologists discovered the oldest ant species on the planet, 113 million years old and with scythe-shaped jaws.

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

Fingerprint made by Neanderthal 43,000 years ago could be world’s oldest portrait - Ochre mark is thought to be oldest complete fingerprint ever found and may suggest Neanderthals were capable of abst ...