Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one ...

People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a new study. To complete this study, the research team developed a new computer ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

Archaeologists find evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed over 100 kilometers of open sea to reach Malta 8,500 years ago.

A CT scan of an ancient marine reptile that was entombed while pregnant has revealed a huge surprise — there were two fetuses inside her fossilized remains. "Twins! She has another baby," Judith ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

The cores contained sediments from ancient coastal wetlands that formed and drowned as the present-day North Sea flooded in, leaving behind thin (10–30 centimetres) layers of decayed organic ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...