For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly ...

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, a team of geoscience researchers took a closer look at the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Ancient ice cores are valuable to investigate due to the water and air stored in them, according to Space.com. In both of ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

A recently published study suggests humans' creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought ...

The study also compared the results with measurements of lunar anorthosites, which are rare rocks on Earth but very common on ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

A study by research teams at the National Museum of Natural Science and National Taiwan University has, for the first time, ...

In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...