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

The Forensic Science Laboratory in Jammu and Kashmir has published its first genetic data study, revealing significant ...

Navaornis fills a ~70-million-year gap in our knowledge of the evolution of the unique bird brain. Navaornis hestiae (centre) ...

With funding from the National Science Foundation, a team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler ...

Did you know that the concept of atomic theory was first explored over 2,500 years ago in ancient India? Long before modern science, an Indian sage named Acharya Kanad proposed the idea of indivisible ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

"To me, it's always exciting to get to name something new, something that's brand new to science," Eberle said. "Its genus ...

The fossil exposes remarkable features of the ancient sea dragon. One standout feature is its ... scientists have found ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...