The Cambrian Explosion was a weird time for the creatures of planet Earth. It was a period of impressive change and growth, ...

A burial site discovered near Lake Onega, located in the northwest Russian republic of Karelia, is reshaping understandings ...

Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, ...

Alberto García Piquer, researcher at the Department of Prehistory, is autor and co-editor of the book The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale ...

From Niagara Falls to the Redwood Forests, state parks preserve many of the nation’s iconic landscapes and historic treasures ...

The outline of a hand made with red pigment on the wall of a cave in Indonesia at least 67,800 years ago may be the world’s oldest rock art, according ...

Once these were the largest and most dominant living things on land, but their greatness did not ensure survival.