Languages: English, Spanish A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among prehistoric humans, a study reports. In the study, published in ...

The discovery offers new insights into the cultural and mortuary practices of prehistoric Poland. It also forms part of a larger story about violence during a period of mass migration across Europe.

After further analyses, including micro-CT scans and comparisons with other pterosaur fossils, they suggest the hole was probably a bite mark from a prehistoric crocodile ancestor, though it might ...

How exactly these extinct creatures had sex, meanwhile, has proved something of a mystery – but now an expert sheds light on this most prehistoric of intercourse. American paleontologist Riley ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

Researchers describe the region as “the most attractive land for prehistoric settlement anywhere in the continent.” Today, this land largely makes up the coastal shelf that is currently under ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

Explore the age of the dinosaurs. Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Non ...

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Long before Antarctica became the frozen desert we know it as today, it was the temperate, forested home of one of Earth’s earliest modern bird species: Vegavis iaai. V. iaai thrived in Antarctic ...

When we think of prehistoric predators, one of the most iconic creatures that comes to mind is the saber-toothed tiger, scientifically known as Smilodon. Often depicted in popular media and ...

But upon closer examination by experts, they found that it wasn’t just the head of any kind of wolf, but that of a prehistoric predator which lived 40,000 years ago during the Ice Age. “This is a ...