In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

Can a new database of 3D bone scans help solve the mystery of the elusive ngudlukanta?

As archaeologists with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation excavated a site in search of American Revolution history, the ...

The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where ...

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of ...

More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the ...

(Did a "werewolf" really terrorize France in the 1700s?) In the 1760s, the Beast of Gévaudan terrorized France and brought about the deaths of more than 100 people. The werewolf-type creature is ...

A teenager’s unexpected discovery of a 34,000-year-old mastodon jaw is now capturing the attention of scientists and shedding ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered in ...

There’s been solid evidence of whale bone tools dating back to about 5,000 years ago, but the new research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications pushes the timeline back.