A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

From spectacular devastation to the all-too-human drama wrought by climate change, these movies and television series depicting global warming — or cooling! — have been chosen by THR staffers for ...

WASHINGTON — A paleontologist has uncovered a trove of ancient fossils inside a cave, a discovery that could reshape what scientists understand about prehistoric ecosystems in the region. John Moretti ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Archaeologists are keen to learn more about the specific diets and culinary practices of ancient populations around the globe. An interdisciplinary team of scientists analyzed the residues on ...

The earliest mass graves in Europe date back just over 7,000 years. They reveal brutal evidence for violence beyond the simple act of killing. The motives for these events are probably diverse but ...

During the early to mid Miocene period, 14 to 19 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of what is now Central Otago. This lost ecosystem is known today from the famous St Bathans fossil deposits ...

Although technically set within the prehistoric history of the primary Earth-616 timeline, the 1 Million BC Avengers offer a setting so radically different from the modern world that it functions as a ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prehistoric skeleton has been found in an intricate underwater cave system along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, an area that flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this handout photo provided by the National Institute of Anthropology and History, underwater archaeologist Octavio del Río ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...