The skull of a dire wolf, an Ice Age apex predator that once roamed the Americas more than 10,000 years ago, is surfacing on the auction block. The specimen is part of Heritage Auctions’s Nature and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent archaeological findings have revealed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal behavior: their penchant for collecting.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...

COMAL COUNTY, Texas — A Texas paleontologist has made a discovery that could re-write what scientists know about prehistoric life in the state. In March, John Moretti, a paleontologist with the ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...