It’s also a gateway to a huge collection of pig jaws.

At some point before our ancestors left Africa, they interbred with this unknown species, contributing to a long and complicated series of affairs between separate hominin lineages. The rest of this ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call ...

The discovery of more than 100 prehistoric structures in the Cova Dones cave in Spain makes it one of the most significant prehistoric underground sites in the world. Archaeologists found stalagmites ...

A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land ...

A routine archaeological excavation ahead of a new housing development near Gloucester, England, has revealed a remarkably preserved 3,500-year-old Bronze Age well. What initially appeared to be ...

The UK west Dorset coast is well known for its fossils. The so-called ‘Jurassic Coast’ has yielded numerous specimens that ...

A prehistoric burial site has yielded surprising insights into the diet of hunter-gatherers living thousands of years ago in Northwest Africa. Researchers have found that a group of these ...

A prehistoric Equisetum horsetail plant that survived 400 million years produces oxygen isotopes and water with an extreme ...

Narrator Tom Hiddleston teases "remarkable creatures and epic clashes for survival" in a sneak peek at 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture. Experts believe the size of the tomb and wealth of the artifacts show the owner was a ...