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Bizarre Stone Age Skulls Baffle Archaeologists December 16, 2024
Archaeologists are scratching their heads over the bizarre and macabre discovery of Stone Age skulls in Italy, according to a study published last month in the European Journal of Archaeology....
When Did Humans First Discover Dinosaurs? December 16, 2024
The first known illustration of a dinosaur bone is from 1677. The man who wrote about it thought it might belong to a giant....
Tool That Helped Early Americans Survive the Ice Age Found December 06, 2024
The discovery of Stone Age needles made from the bones of foxes, cats and other small carnivores reveal how prehistoric humans survived in cold climes....
Possible New Ancient Human Species Uncovered November 30, 2024
Homo juluensis lived approximately 300,000 years ago in eastern Asia....
205-Million-Year-Old Lizard Is The Oldest Discovered November 30, 2024
Following some hot debate, the reptile has retrieved its tiny crown....
60,000-Year-Old Glue-Making Oven Found In Cave November 22, 2024
Neanderthals are often assumed to be dim-witted, but this suggests they shouldn't all be tarred with that brush....
How We Misunderstood The Lucy Fossil November 21, 2024
It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the scientists who have studied her say that this fossil gave us a misleading image of the nature of her species...
12,000-Year-Old Stones Reveal Possible Early Technology November 16, 2024
In an exciting discovery from Israel’s Nahal-Ein Gev II archaeological site, a collection of perforated, donut-shaped stones may represent some of the earliest evidence of wheel-like technology in hum...
New Tyrannosaur Species Unearthed in Mexico September 27, 2024
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species in the tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus Labocania, based on a partial skeleton found in Coahuila, Mexico....
10,000-year-old DNA Gives Insights into South Africans September 20, 2024
A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) have analyzed human remains from the Oakhurst rock shelter in southernmost Africa and reconstructed ...
When Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbred? September 19, 2024
Archaeologists knew that humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where has proven difficult to pinpoint. A new study may have solved the mystery....
What Was Puberty Like for Ice Age Teens? September 17, 2024
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA—According to a statement released by the University of Victoria, Mary Lewis of […]...
Mega El Niño May Have Caused Greatest Mass Extinction September 16, 2024
Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found....
Sue the T. Rex: 6 Facts About the Famous Dinosaur Fossil September 14, 2024
The Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as Sue carries a controversial past—and has revealed fearsome facts about its species....
Neanderthal Find Challenges History of Ancient Relatives September 13, 2024
One of the "last" Neanderthal individuals has been found in a cave in France, revealing a previously unknown lineage....
Fossils Show That Massive Pterosaurs Could Fly September 11, 2024
Well-preserved fossils reveal that even the most colossal of pterosaurs were capable of flight, and various species had diverse flight styles such as soaring....
Quarry Workers Make Prehistoric Discovery June 12, 2024
Workers in Central Asia made a "mammoth" discovery earlier this month.Laborers came across the bones of an ancient mammoth while quarrying on June 2. In a press release, Kyrgyzstan's Ministry of Culture explained that the remains were found in "the s...
Archaeological Find May Rewrite Early Human History June 12, 2024
An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light on prehistoric humans' behavior....
Ancient Geese Were 3 Meters Tall, Heavy as a Cow June 07, 2024
Australia’s prehistoric thunder birds – once thought to be the ancestors of emus – were, in fact, the biggest geese that ever lived.The group has been reclassified following the analysis of a 45,000-year-old Genyornis newtoni skull found in a fossil ...
Fossil Diver Makes Ancient Find Off Florida Coast June 07, 2024
A Florida man recently found a prehistoric jackpot while diving off the Sunshine State's coast.Alex Lundberg, who studied marine biology at the University of South Florida, told Fox News Digital that he found an ancient mastodon tusk while scavenging...
Prehistoric Discovery in Lake Leaves Experts in Shock May 31, 2024
Wisconsin historians recently announced the discovery of at least 11 ancient canoes in a Badger State lake – including one boat that dates back to 2500 BC.The findings were announced in a press release by the Wisconsin Historical Society on May 23. T...
'Mammoth Meatball' of DNA Could be Deadly March 30, 2023
The so-called prehistoric “mammoth meatball” has been manufactured by the Australian “cellular meat” company, Vow. This culinary conundrum will be displayed this Thursday at the Nemo Science Museum in the Netherlands.In this seemingly sci-fi experime...
What 1,000+ Bog Bodies Have Revealed March 21, 2023
Maybe you have seen them. Behind glass in the museums, their thousand-year-old bodies both terrify and fascinate us.Bog bodies literally put a face to our ancestors and take us a little closer to the ancient past. It makes us realize how prehistoric ...
Human Remains, Animal Bones Found in Saudi Cult Site March 21, 2023
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered ancient human remains buried near hundreds of scattered animal bones inside a 7,000-year-old desert monument, a ritual site used by a prehistoric cult.The remains, those of an adult male approximately in...
Primitive Tools Made by Monkeys, Not Humans? March 15, 2023
Archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have announced their discovery of stone fragments that closely resemble ancient stone tools made by prehistoric humans. What is notable is that these apparently worked stone o...
