Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Reports of a dinosaur-like beast known as the Mokele-mbembe are on the rise in The Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Jamie Gustafson draws dinosaurs, sharks and pretty much anything else from the natural world. Some of his clients have ...

Siffre’s story started in 1939, in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast of France – but it wasn’t until 1962 that the events that ...

Archaeologists from the Buzău County Museum, in southern Romania, have discovered 31 human settlements on the construction ...

Some 60,000-year-old wild Sichuan pepper seeds unearthed at the Mengxihe Site in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have helped shed ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium will soon debut a new Ice Age exhibit. The temporary exhibit, "Ice Age: Frozen in Time," runs ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.