About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

The northeastern gold rush town of Republic caters to fossil-obsessed road-trippers with the only public dig site in the state.

DNA analysis of that tiny fossil led to the 2010 finding that it represented a distinct ancient human population, which scientists dubbed the Denisovans. Many people alive today carry traces of ...

Ancient finds shape how we view history - and the world. Click or swipe through to see some of those discoveries as they're uncovered. A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2000 ...

The study, published in the journal Science Advances, traced the snow leopard's evolutionary path during the Quaternary period by analyzing rare fossils discovered across the Eurasian continent.

These ancient remnants come from the ocean covering what is now ... The Cambrian Explosion was a phase in Earth’s history when many animal groups appeared in the fossil record in a short span of time.

Researchers from Imperial College London have made an exciting discovery that reveals ancient mollusks were more complex and adaptable than previously known. They have discovered two rare 430 ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest known example of an evolutionary arms race in the fossil record, dating back 517 million years. These ancient predator-prey interactions took place in the ...

Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient mollusks were more complex and adaptable than previously known. Mollusks are one of life's most diverse animal ...