prehistory

A glimpse into the animal kingdom’s food chain 48 million years ago has been made possible by the discovery of a very unique fossil.

Scientists have long wondered when life began on Earth. The oldest fossil evidence had previously been dated to ...

Archaeologists in Austria have announced the discovery of a pair of rare mammoth tusks estimated to be around ...

Stone tools, cooked animal and plant remains, and fire pits from a site in southern Chile suggest the ...

Did prehistoric civilizations possessed advanced technological knowledge that was lost throughout the ages only to be redeveloped in ...

PARIS—Two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in ...

Round natural pearls are rarely found in nature. So when archaeologists uncovered a 2000-year-old near-round pearl on the ...

According to a recently published paper, paleontologists in China have discovered a new species of bird that is ...

A 55,000-year-old human skull found in northern Israel confirms that humans were in the area at the time. ...

A 300-million-year-old fish fossil discovered in Kansas has evidence of photoreceptor eye tissue. It's the earliest known display ...

A wooden statue called the Shigir Idol could hold clues to the oldest code written in the world!

Researchers have found prehistoric cave paintings on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia that might be even older than those found ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we ...

Overlooking the Konya Plain in Turkey lies the remarkable and unique ancient city of Çatalhöyük, the largest and ...

An 18th century discovery of man-made objects under layers of limestone is evidence, some say, that humans existed ...

If the stone really formed around this hammer more than 100 million years ago, who in the world ...