Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to understanding ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once turned piles of animal bones into nurseries. Instead of burrowing into soil ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s ...