Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

The astonishing discovery has ignited a fierce controversy.

Bone diagenesis refers to the complex series of physical, chemical and biological processes that modify bone tissues after burial. This alteration affects both the organic and inorganic components, ...

Among the discoveries was a 1,700-year-old death mask of a Maya ruler, found and assembled by Provost Diane Chase and ...

Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.

Two thousand years ago, someone in a quiet Roman frontier village carefully packed a bone full of potent, mind-bending seeds — and sealed it for safekeeping. Archaeologists have opened it, and it has ...

Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The ...