A footprint discovered near Brisbane nearly seven decades ago has been dated to 230 million years ago, making it the earliest ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

While strict steampunk is somewhat rare, many great movies are inspired by the genre's fascination with alternate history and ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

A new study has delved into the debate about the use of an ancient artifact discovered in Iraq nearly a century ago but that ...

Brave Survival Life is at it again, showing **how to build** a unique **swimming pool** using **primitive technology**. The entire **building** and design is done by hand, perfect for **jungle ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Scientists are revisiting the ancient Baghdad battery, a 2,000-year-old artifact that might have been used as a primitive ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...