A prehistoric mass grave in Serbia reveals that more than 77 people—mostly women and children—were deliberately killed in a brutal act of violence about 2,800 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests the ...

Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa ...

A double burial in Ukraine of two women from the Late Scythian culture contains a toxic red mineral, but exactly why it was used remains a mystery.

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds discovered during lignite mining. The area in Saxony-Anhalt is one of the ...

A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

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 ...

Long ago, when elephants roamed Europe, Neanderthals were running a deeply complex, bone-crushing operation. To get their hands on much-needed fats and protein, they carefully followed the movements ...

Lake Winnebago’s sturgeon spearing season ended early for the first time in a decade after anglers hit the harvest cap in ...

Researchers investigating the prehistoric wetlands of the Duvensee Moor in Schleswig-Holstein have uncovered the skull of a wild aurochs that had once been mounted on a wooden post near what is ...

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...