It focuses on creatures such as the woolly mammoth, which roamed the Earth after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Furthermore, 20 prehistoric coprolites were tested as controls and showed no human myoglobin (< 5 ng of human myoglobin per gm of coprolite). The control coprolites were from Salmon Ruin ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

Especially exciting is tomb M27, which likely belonged to a prehistoric king judging by ... providing evidence for the nature of diversity within Chinese civilization,” said Li Zinwei, deputy ...

For the first time ever, scientists have managed to determine the biological sex of an ancient human ancestor that lived in ...

"Just before the dinosaurs disappeared, I think a lot of them were chowing down on flowering plants," says Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Johnson has unearthed many fossils ...

This is the case with modern tegus in Florida. But until this point, there was no record of prehistoric tegus in North America. Bourque needed evidence to back up his revelation. Paleontologists ...

By studying similar species living today, the team pieced together other theories about this prehistoric wasp. As a distant relative of Sirenobethylus charybdis, the present-day pincer wasp has ...