Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

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The recent discovery of an ancient human skeleton, estimated to be at least 29,000 years old, in Prachuap Khiri Khan proves that the area which is now Thailand was inhabited by humans in the Old ...

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

An artistic rendering of an Otodus megalodon, not from the study addressed in this article. This interpretation makes megalodon look just like a great white shark, but new research suggests this ...

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Radiocarbon dating using a new method has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the Lapedo Child, a prehistoric skeleton exhibiting both modern human and Neanderthal features.

On Wednesday, March 26, artist Brian Engh visited the Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences to give a lecture on paleoart.