Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones.

The bone needles were uncovered at a Wyoming archaeological site that sheds light on some of the early inhabitants of North America called La Prele. Previously, archaeologists uncovered evidence that ...

Fossils from a Caribbean cave reveal bees once nested inside animal bones, offering rare insight into ancient insect behavior ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

When most people come across animal bones on a hike, they might inspect them idly or quickly avert their eyes and keep moving. But to Hawke Woznick, these remnants of an animal’s life inspire ...

Sheep may have played a major role in a prehistoric plague outbreak. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 11, 2025 11:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

A tranquil Swedish wetland has yielded a startlingly intimate scene from prehistory, where a 5,000-year-old dog lies ...

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