Life-sized animal carvings may have served as landmarks to help ancient travelers navigate between life-saving water sources ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

What were the first animals to appear on Earth? New research points to a surprising candidate: sea sponges. A team of ...

Evidence of large "meat feasts" in the British Iron Age: millions of bones reveal social and livestock networks from 2,800 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A recent study has shown the behaviors of ancient species that once roamed the area that is now known as Oregon. In February, scientific journal Palaeontologia Electronica ...

Neanderthals living 125,000 years ago in what is now modern-day Germany may have extracted and eaten fat from animal bones through an organized food preparation process that scientists describe as a ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...