In a prominent paper published in 1977,Xia drew on nearly 100 radiocarbon-dated samples to systematically establish absolute ...

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay fish a flooded spillway loaded with prehistoric monsters.

The astronomer Edmond Halley, the namesake for Halley’s comet, linked the northern lights to the Earth’s magnetic field, ...

More than 66 million years ago, Mexico was home to numerous species of dinosaurs, some of them as terrifying as T. rex.

The Driftless Area Scenic Byway cuts a mesmerizing 144-mile path through a region that ancient glaciers apparently found too ...

Long before modern civilization, prehistoric America presented an environment that may have been hostile to early human ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

Experts say that American history could very well be reauthored after archaeologists in the country discovered an “ancient ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...