Aged between 2.5 and 3.5 years old, practically an infant, it turned out that she became the oldest remains ever to be found in northern Britain.

Researchers in Costa Rica have uncovered ancient mastodon and giant sloth fossils, shedding light on the prehistoric giants that once roamed the region.

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

The oldest human remains ever found in Northern Britain have been identified as a young female three years after being discovered in a Cumbrian cave. Excavated at Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria's ...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

Research biologists with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers discovered 26 new microbial species that could help the U.S. military survive and thrive in extreme cold regions.

A 1950s find of Late Pleistocene perishable items from two Oregon caves was recently made available to scientists. Included in the 55 items were two pieces of elk hide stitched together, dated to ...

Initially, scientists suggested the ancient remains belonged to a man. However, experts have now managed to extract enough ...

This means that early inhabitants of North America had advanced seamstress skills long before the construction of the Egyptian pyramids between 1,700 and 2,700 BC, ...

The remains of northern England’s earliest known “caveman” was actually a girl who was buried more than 11,000 years ago.

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

While sharks may have emerged before trees, it’s the latter that holds the title of the longest-living organisms. The oldest-known, still-living, individual tree is a 4,857-year-old Californian ...