The chamber of Cova de les Dones where an ancient Roman coin and inscriptions were found. Photo from A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela and X. Martorell In eastern Spain, researchers exploring the Cova de ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

It is doubtful that a more uneven surface on the earth can be pointed out than that of Block Island…Here we had neither even ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and historians from several institutions in Spain, Germany, and Poland, has found ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...