Even with the Weather Service predicting snow, the climb up Mount Hood was still on. What's more, it was a rite of passage — ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

One might not think that snow could help anything stay warm through a harsh winter, but these tiny bats have found a way to ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

An ochre hand stencil found in the jungles of Indonesia is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers believe, a ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

Faint ochre outlines of hands thought to be at least 67,800 years old are the oldest rock art yet discovered. Archaeologists ...