For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

The medical use of horseshoe crabs highlights the dilemma between human safety, environmental sustainability, and scientific ...

A 49-foot prehistoric snake, Vasuki indicus, has been discovered in India, rewriting our understanding of ancient reptiles.

Prehistoric human babies probably looked just like their parents from the moment they were born. Not only would this have ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way.

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

In Scarborough, the remains of Gristhorpe Man, Britain's best-preserved Early Bronze Age skeleton were analysed and suggested that he was aged between 45 and 60 years, tall and muscular, and nourished ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that ...