Prehistory

Colossal Biosciences hopes to use genetic engineering to "jumpstart nature's ancestral heartbeat."

A Celtic warrior was injured in battle 2,500 years ago. Archaeologists were able to identify the weapon based on 3D scans of his skeleton.

Learn why drastic drops in temperature sent European hunter-gathers in search of a warmer place to live.

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia.

Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival of the asteroid that devastated the dinosaurs.

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to their remarkable ability to populate much of the Earth

Tools "show evidence that their creators carefully worked the bones, chipping off flakes to create useful shapes."…

New research led by Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology scientists challenges conventional ideas about the habitability of ancient tropical forests and suggests that West Africa may have been an important center for the evolution of our species, Homo sapiens.

Learn how the extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago caused seeds to grow larger, filling in an important piece in the evolutionary history of fruit.

Researchers think the Indigenous roads were more about cosmology than traffic.

A group of veterans and military personnel made the discovery in Wales.

And they didn't stop at the brains.

Hint: Think 'turtle.'

Paleoanthropologists have found 1.95-million-year-old cut-marked bones that appear to have been made by early hominins using stone tools at the site of Grăunceanu in Romania.

There are many megaliths around the world, some of which rival Stonehenge for their size and age.

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage

Learn why the sound of echoes near rock art sites in Finland gives insight to how neolithic people interacted with their artwork.

Learn more about the Durotriges, the first known matriarchal society found in Europe.

Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.