Climate scientists say West Antarctica was ice-free for millions of years longer than previously thought and the big freeze probably only happened 7 million years later. An international team of…
An Austrian vintner has made a remarkable discovery after stumbling upon 40,000-year-old mammoth bones while renovating his cellar for the coming harvest. Winemaker Andreas Pernerstorfer was stunned when he came…
Russian customs police unearth a stash of mammoth ivory hidden under the skirt of a woman trafficker. Mammoth ivory has seen growing popularity in jewellery due to its ethical sourcing.…
Archaeologists examining prehistoric artwork of footprints up to 50,000 years old in southwest Africa have been able to determine the type of animals and even their likely ages by cooperating…
Experts have discovered ancient human footprints in Germany dating back 300,000 years right next to sets of tracks left by prehistoric elephants. The footprints, which can be seen in the…
The 4,000-year-old bodies of two prehistoric men have been identified as among the world's oldest known plague victims. The two Early Bronze Age corpses - aged between 22 and 30…
Scientists in Germany have reanimated a roundworm from the Siberian permafrost that had laid dormant for nearly 50,000 years. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Saxony State, thawed…
African savannahs which cover more than a third of the Earth's surface emerged 10 million years earlier than scientists once thought, a new study has revealed. Soil studies and anaylising…
New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Scientists from the Max…
A new study has revealed that only hunter-gatherers who sought refuge in Spain and Portugal survived the last Ice Age 30,000 years ago. Using new DNA analysis of prehistoric human…