Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels continue to drop.

Life-sized puppet animals marched through London on Friday (June 27) as part of “The Herds,” an eye-catching art project ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Alexandre Lefebvre Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers living in Western Europe made tools from the bones of whales that had been stranded along the Atlantic coast.

Radiocarbon dating (which determines the age of organic materials) revealed that the oldest bones in the collection date back to around 19,000 to 20,000 years ago, “making it the oldest evidence ...

Prehistoric stone tool cores on display from the cave – credit, Sara Watson SWNS In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of Africa, thousands of stone tools made by early humans ...

The 20,000-year-old tools, found on the southern coast of South Africa, were made by early humans near the end of the last major Ice Age, experts say.

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 years ago. These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...

"The Takarkori lineage likely represents a remnant of the genetic diversity present in northern Africa between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago," Krause said. "From 20,000 years ago onward, genetic ...