For tens of thousands of years, humans painted animals, symbols, and bodies — but almost never faces. Then archaeologists found a tiny ivory carving in France that may be the oldest human face ever ...

The cenotes of Mexico are famous not only for their beauty, but for the archaeological finds they reveal.

A diver just found 8,000-year-old human remains in a flooded Mexican cave, and they may hold the secrets of an ancient ...

Facial bone fragments from Sima del Elefante in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, dated to about 1.4 million years ago, represent the oldest known human fossil in Western Europe. The remains differ from ...

Researchers investigating the prehistoric wetlands of the Duvensee Moor in Schleswig-Holstein have uncovered the skull of a wild aurochs that had once been mounted on a wooden post near what is ...

Researchers on Cape Cod, Mass., recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help understand how the animals communicate. The recording is the song ...

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

A tiny object from an Oregon cave is pulling archaeologists back into one of the oldest and most contested chapters in American history.

One of the most ubiquitous birds on earth is the sparrow, Celebrate World Sparrow Day 2026 on March 20 with the theme 'I Love ...

The oldest giraffe at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) has died just five days after the passing of another giraffe at the ...

The original skull, digital scan, and reconstructed face of Little Foot. Credit: Amélie Beaudet. Scientists have finally ...