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

Ancient bone could reveal how Neanderthals cared for a child with Down syndrome By Katie Hunt, CNN 5 minute read Updated 8:56 AM EDT, Thu June 27, 2024 Link Copied! Follow: ...

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 ...

An ancient bone discovered in a French cave could prove the existence of an unknown human species. The bone, which is believed to be a hip bone, is known as an ilium and was excavated from a cave ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered a large collection of ancient tools crafted out of hippopotamus and elephant bones, pushing back the age of bone tool kits made by ancient humans a million years.

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 ...

A Single Prehistoric Bone Might Rewrite the History of the World’s Strangest Mammals Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas ...

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.