Prehistoric cave discoveries hint at shared culture between Neanderthals and humans
Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted the…
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Elite Scythians such as the “Golden Man” inherited their lofty status and shared power during the Iron Age, DNA analysis…
Hobbit-like humans may have scavenged Komodo dragons’ leftovers to survive
Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey taken down…
Fossil kept in drawer for decades turns out to be first ever Antarctica dinosaur bone
A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur…
Artifacts dating back 400,000 years, found in cave, show ‘complex and rich’ pre-human society
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 years ago,…
Papyrus scroll burnt to a crisp during Vesuvius eruption deciphered with help of AI
A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled…
Archaeologists unearth second Alamo cannonball in rare discovery
Archaeologists discovered an iron cannonball near the Alamo Church in San Antonio that may have played a role in the…
The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling
Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and…
Sunken wreck of WWII ‘hell ship’ used to transport POWs discovered after more than 80 years
Archaeologists have discovered the wreck of the Hōfuku Maru — the final resting place of 1,000 British and Dutch POWs…
A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones
Researchers found a huge whale graveyard dating back millions of years, with fossils, modern carcasses and deep-sea scavengers, some of…