A man digging in his backyard for just three days ended up uncovering something unreal — a massive hidden cave system beneath his property. What started as a simple project quickly turned into a ...

The Rajgir Hills have become an important sanctuary for endangered species of birds, including Indian vultures and griffon vultures.

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

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

Archaeological records confirm that the "Prince" was buried with a headdress or cap made of hundreds of small pierced shells ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

A faded hand stencil discovered in an Indonesian cave may be the oldest known rock art, dating back at least 67,800 years.