Across the world, archaeologists keep stumbling on structures so old, so large and so technically sophisticated that they ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

On a high, wind-scoured plateau of Antarctica, scientists have carved a small frozen vault into the ice and begun filling it ...

The community that lived in the Grotta della Monaca caves had its own unique mix of ancestry.

The digested meat from the wolf pup’s last meal, which took place a staggering 14,400 years ago, contained enough DNA from ...

The body of the young woolly mammoth known as Yuka was so well-preserved that scientists were able to recover ancient RNA molecules. It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?