In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils spread across the submerged stream bed in every direction, packed tightly enough that paleontologist John Moretti could barely move without ...

COMAL COUNTY, Texas - A discovery deep underground in Central Texas is challenging what scientists thought they knew about the region’s ancient past. Inside a cave in Comal County, researchers have ...