When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Lascaux Cave in France is one of many with Stone Age rock art. | Credit: Pictures from History ...

Analysis of bones from Goyet cave in Belgium found cut marks indicating cannibalism, with victims including children and ...

Charlotte Lindqvist is used to handling ancient DNA. A UB evolutionary biologist, she’s extracted genetic information from the tooth of a Paleolithic-era polar bear and analyzed the bone of what’s ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Ancient human remains found in a cave in northern Spain show signs of violence and cannibalism. Maria D. Guillén IPHES-CERCA In the karst mountains of northern Spain, a cave once held an ancient ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Guatemala’s Cueva de Sangre, translated as “blood cave,” isn’t just a clever name. It’s an apropos ...

Takamatsu Gushiken uses a hand hoe to delicately move dirt in a cave while searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the World War II in 1945, in ...

A nearly complete skeleton of a red fox dating back to the Ice Ages has been unearthed in a northeastern Utah cave. A team of scientists from the Utah Division of State Parks and the USDA Forest ...

With high carbon dioxide, low oxygen and no photosynthesis, here’s how an entire ecosystem persists in one of the world’s most extreme environments. Life, as we know it, is exceptionally good at ...