From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that ...

Watch the Season 3 First Look Clip for Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, a five-part natural history event series distributed by ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

Meet the fish that time forgot – a real-life descendant of the dinosaurs. In this rare look, we watch the ancient creature nurture and feed its offspring. It’s a fascinating glimpse into evolution ...

We went to a Michigan beach expecting driftwood and maybe a tan. Instead, we found rocks older than civilization itself.

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the ...

A fossil found over two decades ago on England’s Jurassic Coast has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries of ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...