The painted desert of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park is a fossil wonderland. Scattered through the sunbeaten rock ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than previously thought. This indicates that they could adapt the ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including archaeologists, have analyzed the DNA of fish remains from Roman fish ...

A new study says early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search.

And Zygomaturus trilobus, a wombat the size of a hippo. They’re all extinct now, and researchers are trying to figure out why. Host Flora Lichtman talks with researcher Carli Peters about ZooMS, a ...

Based on the dating of the context in which the newly discovered bone tools were found, the researchers suggest that this technology may have played a role in the transition from the Oldowan (2.6 ...

Ancient dog penis bone — stained red for Roman fertility ritual — found in UK quarry By Irene Wright. January 08, 2025 12:06 PM.

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a “hobbit” who lived around 700,000 ...

At an ancient Roman quarry in Surrey, England, an oddly colored bone suggests it may have been used in a fertility ritual, researchers said. elliot via Unsplash Ahead of a development project at ...

Ancient humans consistently used bone tools at least one million years earlier than was previously thought. ‘Truly gobsmacked’: Ancient-human genome count surpasses 10,000.