Deep in the limestone caves of southern China lies a discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about human ...

Many of us will have had a tooth pulled in the dentist chair, either under local or general anesthetic, and even with modern ...

Over 100 perforated pebbles from a site near the Sea of Galilee showcase an early instance of the tech that reshaped humanity ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

EXCLUSIVE: An award-winning documentary about the woman known as “the Russian Erin Brockovich” is getting support from… the ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...

Think about those adorable fat cartoon characters — you know, the ones. They’re lovable, have a larger-than-life personality ...

A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...

This question has been asked for centuries, without really finding a definitive answer. From scientists' point of view, ...

These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...