Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

The prehistoric boomerang made of mammoth tusk that was found in Poland's Obłazowa Cave in the 1980s was always an exciting ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists ...

And one foot bone resembles those of the ancient australopithecines, a group that includes the famous human relative Lucy, who trekked across Africa roughly three million years ago. Five of the ...

Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has unearthed evidence of a civilisation dating back 4,500 years in Bahaj village of ...

Gurche’s models, which rely on fossil bones, help bring ancient humans into focus. The model shown here represents his best estimate of what a new hominin known as Homo longi may have looked like.

With a lack of ancient human bone excavations in the region, finding human DNA within this piece of chewed-up birch bark was ...

Locals near Brazil’s Fonte Boa region initially discovered the large urns sticking out of the ground where a tree was uprooted, experts said.

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40, ...