Footprints and drag marks from early humans using travois are discovered at White Sands, NM, dating back 22,000 years.

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

And it was huge. The ancestor of today’s 20-foot great white shark was thought to be about 26 feet long, the authors of a ...

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

These findings line up with the fossil record. More than 90 percent of pygmy elephant remains are found within a narrow ...

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

Mythology, folklore and even the Bible tell us that giants once roamed the Earth. And, it turns out, there’s evidence to back this claim. Extraordinary human remains have been found in the US state of ...

The provenance of 3.4-million-year-old foot bones in Ethiopia may have finally been solved – and could prompt a rethink into how our various ancient human ancestors coexisted. In 2009, Yohannes ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

Berlin’s Museum of Natural History is one of the world's most important research institutions. Home to an incredible ...