For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Beneath the relentless sun of Chile's Atacama Desert, tiny geckos hide a remarkable secret. New genomic research, led by the ...

In a historic breakthrough from Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, paleontologists have made a discovery of two new species of sharks, giving insight into the prehistoric sea life of the world.

A remarkable fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, unearthed on Scotland's Isle of Skye, offers crucial insights into snake ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas in 1492 is often presented as a major discovery, but this view obscures a much older reality. Many populations had already set foot on these lands ...

The first people to arrive in the Western Hemisphere were Indigenous Americans, who were descended from an ancestral group of ...

A reconstruction of an ancient skull suggests that humans could have evolved half a million years earlier than thought. Not ...

The historical detective story of a lost temple on Athens' Acropolis. It all began with the discovery of ancient graffiti.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - A team of University of Alabama researchers has uncovered a remarkable collection of ancient crab and shrimp fossils from central Alabama — ...

A groundbreaking discovery on the Isle of Skye has unearthed a 160-million-year-old fossil that could completely reshape our ...

Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of the oldest relatively complete lizard fossils and helps scientists better ...