Coins have been around since what seems like the dawn of time and human civilization. Of course, numismatists, collectors, ...

The Isle of Skye holds the key to ancient species. From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world's largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our ...

Complex prehistoric tools unearthed at an archaeological site in central China are upending long-standing assumptions about human evolution, scientists claim in a new study. Excavations at the Xigou ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. Ice caves are just one of the environments hosting a variety of ...