A 45,000-year-old Neanderthal bone found in Crimea shows ancient humans traveled thousands of miles, linking Europe and Siberia.

Bone worms (the red animals in this picture) were first discovered in the early 2000s, but these animals are believed to have evolved more than 100 million years ago. Adapted from Fujiwara et al. via ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than previously thought. This indicates that they could adapt the techniques ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in ...

In what might be the coolest solution to "how to find fossils", a new study has revealed how we can take to the skies when ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable collection of 5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups crafted from human bones at a Stone Age site in China. This discovery sheds light on how ancient ...

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a... A MacArthur 'genius' gleans surprising lessons from ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and ...