Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

Marine fossils discovered in England’s Peak District reveal detailed life from a tropical sea that covered the region 340 ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

At the northern boundry of Anuradhapura, where the Malwathu Oya curves through scrubland and forest and the wilderness of ...

Along a quiet stretch of coastline in eastern England, a short window of low tide revealed something rarely seen in Europe.

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...