Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...

Recent bioarchaeological and osteological analysis of a skeleton excavated from a Roman cemetery outside the city of York, ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

A Roman bone found alongside 1,000 black henbane hallucinogenic seeds reveals medical and ritual practices in ancient Roman ...

so on their own they are not conclusive evidence that animal combat took place there,” Coleman said. “That is why the new skeleton is so important.” Additional analysis of the man’s bones ...

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome ... a gladiator from Roman-era England. The bones not only help experts better understand ...

The team unearthed an ancient burial with “a small amount of coarse pottery,” animal bones and part of a “chariot wheel tyre,” Young said. A photo shows the “rare” chariot wheel ...

Other scientists have reported sites in Eurasia and northern Africa with either hominin fossils, stone tools or butchered animal bones from around this time. Our recently published research adds ...

She'd seen them before, on bones that were butchered with stone tools about 1.8 million years ago, from a site called Dmanisi in Georgia.These were cut marks made by a human ancestor wielding a ...

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