The findings suggest humans crossed into central Europe earlier than previously thought.
Combining advanced climate model simulations with marine sediment analyses, a breakthrough scientific study reveals what may have triggered massive ice sheets to form in Scandinavia, ringing in the last glacial period some 100,000 years ago.
The ultra-black skin of the species enables them to hide in the pitch-dark depths of the ocean in order to ambush their prey.
Archaeologist Joel Klenck Announces Finding of Writing from an Ancient Time, Noah's Ark Codex, at a Late Epipaleolithic Site (13,100 and 9,600 BC).
A solar-powered balloon mission detected a repeating infrasound noise in the stratosphere. Scientists have no idea who or what is making it.
Melting permafrost in Siberia revealed the near-perfectly preserved body of a foal who died 30000 to 40000 years ago.
According to legend, the shroud was secretly carried from Judea in AD 30 or 33, and was housed in Edessa, Turkey, and Constantinople (the name for Istanbul before the Ottomans took over) for centuries. After crusaders sacked Constantinople in AD 1204, the cloth was smuggled to safety in Athens, Greece, where it stayed until AD 1225.
With the help of new archaeogenetic data, scientists have obtained exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age. Ancient DNA reveals completely unexpected marriage rules in Minoan Crete, scientists say.
Through over 300,000 fossils and the identification of 266 species, including ten never-before-seen variations, scientists and experts have revealed a world that existed between 3 and 3.7 million years ago.
Scientists discover new extinct ant species encased in amber.