A 6,000-year-old skeleton that survived a lion attack has been found, providing exceptional evidence of prehistoric community ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal encounter with ...

Divers plunging into Mexico's submerged Sac Actun cave system in 2007 stumbled upon a hidden world of Ice Age fossils, ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

A 33-year-old woman was arrested after video surveillance captured a hit-and-run crash on Wednesday, Dec. 31, in far East El ...

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest.

Baked soil, ancient tools and materials that could be used to start fires show that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago — the earliest evidence of this skill found so far.

Martin B. Richards received funding from the European Research Council's ACROSS (Australian Colonisation Research: Origins of Seafaring to Sahul) grant to Professor Helen Farr under the European Union ...