Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought - Find suggests prehistoric humans showed complex planning and understanding of how to enhan ...

A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Dinosaur skeletons often dominate museum halls, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue in Chicago to Sophie the Stegosaurus in London. These fossils shape how you picture dinosaurs.

Archaeologists have identified whale-bone harpoons dating back 5,000 years in southern Brazil, offering new evidence that Indigenous communities hunted massive marine animals long before the invention ...