Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago.

BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have investigated the lives of nobles from the Qin state during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, providing new insights into ancient Chinese social ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the ...

Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture – but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a ...

A shocking discovery in southwestern Kenya is rewriting the history of early human evolution. Ancient tools found alongside ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

A human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees suggests that someone survived a shot in the back several millennia ago.