Scientists uncover a ‘lost world’ inside a New Zealand cave, revealing fossils of extinct birds and frogs from 1 million years ago. The discovery offers rare insight into ancient ecosystems.

The forested hills above Montignac in southwestern France hold no obvious clues to one of archaeology’s most pivotal finds.

Known as "Il Principe," a boy unearthed in northern Italy's Arene Candide Cave in 1942 was killed by a bear nearly 28,000 ...

The adolescent, thought to have been 15–16 years old, was discovered in a cave in Liguria, Italy, in 1942. An exceptionally rich funerary assemblage - which included a headdress made of hundreds of ...

A newly discovered cave chamber has scientists stunned, but what they found inside may never be seen by the public.

Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

For more than a century, people across the Ozarks have believed that untold wealth lies hidden beneath their feet. Spanish ...

The remains of a teenage boy who lived around 27,000 years ago suggest he was attacked by a cave bear—some of the first ...