Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever found. Dated to 480,000 years ago, it’s more than 30,000 years older than any ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

Cheetahs once roamed across most of Africa and parts of Asia, but now live in just 9% of their previous range and haven’t ...

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

Researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics at Stockholm University have recovered a woolly rhino genome from the stomach ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...

Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...

When scientists finally measured the most powerful bite ever recorded, the winner wasn’t T. rex. It was something far older, ...

The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn't built for modern diets, which ...

Nature always has the potential to outdo human imagination. From across oceans, forests, deserts, and isolated islands, there ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk.