Roughly 5,500–6,000 years ago, the area including present-day Finland was inhabited by hunter-fisher-gatherers living in small village-like clusters. Traveling via waterways, these people established ...

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

In labs and boardrooms, a small group of technologists is trying to turn the woolly mammoth from Ice Age fossil into living, ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million ...

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

The world’s oldest known rock art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered in an Indonesian cave.

Ancient DNA from a Colombian hunter-gatherer reveals a 5,500-year-old infection, rewriting what we know about syphilis and ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

The ore was recovered in the early 1970s and completely stumped scientists, until they realized it was evidence of something ...

Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a wild ...