Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

STONE Age people had a far more troublesome enemy than sabre-tooth tigers — bed bugs. Their first settlements — like Fred ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and ...

Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...

F ragments of ancient household item unidentified for 90 years after being excavated have been found to be pieces of baby ...

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of ...

S cientists unearthed a granite pebble bearing the world's oldest known human fingerprint, left by a Neanderthal ...

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.