The print was left on a 43,000-year-old piece of artwork made on a stone by a Neanderthal. It’s a rare instance of a rock not ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

The scrolls were first noticed by Bedouin shepherds in the Judean Desert, which is near the Dead Sea, in 1947. Since then, ...

Paradromics completes first human BCI implant, setting stage for clinical trials targeting severe motor impairment.

Paleolithic humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of marine tool-making discovered.

Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone.The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an 11,000-year-old kitchen at Karahan Tepe, revealing new insights into early human life. This discovery sheds light on how ancient people prepared food and lived ...

In Southern California, a quiet but widespread public health risk has taken root in the region’s freshwater fishing spots.

While surveying a Neanderthal rock shelter inside a cave in San Lázaro, Spain, archaeologists noticed an unusual stone among ...

The Theopetra Cave, located in the Thessaly region of Greece, is home to what many experts consider the oldest construction ever made by humans: a stone wall dating back roughly 23,000 years —about 16 ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...