Jan 28, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered a large, stone-lined hearth – dating to about 300,000 years ago – in a cave near the modern...

Aug 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Italian paleontologists have reported the discovery of enigmatic fossils in Pleistocene shallow-marine clay deposits in central Italy. 1.75-million-year-old...

Jun 27, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Genetic scientists have sequenced and analyzed short pieces of DNA preserved in bones from an early Middle Pleistocene horse that had been kept frozen...

Mar 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Fragments of an early human skull dating back 100,000 years exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common...

Dec 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new research published in the open access journal PLoS-ONE has revealed previously unknown differences in the food habits of saber-toothed cats and American...