After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Fossils usually tell stories through shape and size. Bones show how animals moved, teeth hint at diet, and skulls suggest behavior. Now, scientists have found a new way to learn from fossils by ...

A vast new discovery has revealed that Brusselstown Ring in County Wicklow, Ireland, represents the largest nucleated hillfort settlement ever identified across the entire Atlantic Archipelago.

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering a surprising new window into prehistoric life. The findings reveal animals ...

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period.

Doggerland was a vast landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe before rising seas submerged it. Drawing on archaeology, geology, and collaboration with Miniminuteman, this reconstructs ...