Finding 9,000-year-old organic remains in eastern Norway is extraordinarily rare due to acidic soil conditions that typically destroy such materials quickly. The exceptional preservation at Horten has ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

The discovery suggests ancient communities continued hunting and gathering practices from 8000 BC through the 18th century. Dr. Adrián Oyaneder from the University of Exeter used publicly available ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Researchers have developed a novel application of histological staining to screen for ancient proteins in situ—within the ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

A team of researchers led by Caltech’s Tristan Caro has successfully revived microbes that lay frozen for 40,000 years in ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.