Across the world, archaeologists keep stumbling on structures so old, so large and so technically sophisticated that they ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

"The structures that we were able to identify in the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean." The post ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they study ancient microorganisms. Research led by Cal Poly biochemistry Professor ...

The body of the young woolly mammoth known as Yuka was so well-preserved that scientists were able to recover ancient RNA molecules. It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm ...

It stood tall, rock hard and impossible to ignore — and for years scientists didn’t quite know what to make of it. Now ...

Looks like limestone’s on the menu for some unknown microbe.

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.