A stunning discovery in southern Turkey is raising new questions about the origins of timekeeping and the early human ...

All is fair in love and war – even in the Jurassic. On the ancient Iberian Meseta, the colossal Lusotitan, Old Grande, is in ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how ...

A 92-year-old man believed he would never have to answer for raping and murdering a widow in her home almost 58 years ago, prosecutors have alleged. Louisa Dunne, 75, who had been twice widowed and ...

The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several ...

Scientists have made a haunting and oddly poetic discovery that shows that even tens of millions of years ago, life — and ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

According to the old legend, two mermaids placed an enigmatic curse on the village of Staithes after being captured and kept as prisoner.

Infusing that joy with new memories is the goal that prompted Ritschard to embrace her roots as owner of the newly reopened ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...