The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in ...

Bones hidden in underwater caves in South Australia are giving scientists a new way to understand how extinct giant animals ended up in these unusual environments. Researchers have found that the ...

A rare discovery reveals that 75,000 years ago, a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave in Iraq died a grisly death, likely from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eocene Fossils of a Beetle, Wasp and Mosquito in Sandstone and 38-55 Million Years in Age.© I. Pilon/Shutterstock.com The post ...

Bones preserved in underwater caves offer a rare and powerful window into the past—but until now, researchers have had limited tools to understand how the remains of extinct megafauna and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave in ...

Archaeologists excavating the El Mirador cave in northern Spain have found physical evidence of prehistoric cannibalism. Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA Some 5,700 years ago, a Neolithic farming ...

Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way ...

Researchers identified telltale "fingerprints" left by different cave environments that could help reconstruct the history of megafauna fossils. Underwater caves preserve some of the world's most ...

Eocene Fossils of a Beetle, Wasp and Mosquito in Sandstone and 38-55 Million Years in Age.© I. Pilon/Shutterstock.com The story begins in Cueva de Mono, a cave in the southern Dominican Republic that ...

Bones preserved in underwater caves offer a rare and powerful window into the past – but until now, researchers have had limited tools to understand how the remains of extinct megafauna and other ...

Thousands of years ago, an owl’s messy leftovers became prime real estate for some very determined bees. Deep inside a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, burrowing bees turned fossil bones ...