Burning plastic can also put a cocktail of dangerous chemicals into the air, including dioxins, polycyclic aromatic ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” ...

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals ...

Paleocanna tentaculum’ was more closely related to today’s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives.

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

The latest genetic research from Stajnia Cave in southern Poland has successfully reconstructed the genetic profile of the oldest known group of Neanderthals in Central-Eastern Europe. The findings, ...

Inside a limestone cave in southern Poland, eight small teeth sat embedded in sediment for roughly 100,000 years. Now, a team of geneticists and archaeologists has coaxed mitochondrial DNA from those ...

Neanderthals had a PR disaster in the century after their discovery in 1856. Up until fairly recently, they were dismissed as ...