Researchers have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed ancient magnetic fossils that suggest the existence of a long-lost ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest ...

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest chemical traces of life on Earth using a new machine learning method that identifies ...