Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Scientists have replicated a forgotten but crucial experiment that took place in 1938. The first-ever triton-deuterium ...

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

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 ...

The finished dugout canoe before departure, with leaf wave guards at the bow (right) and stern (left). Vertical sticks at bow ...

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 ...