If someone hands you a large, spiral seashell, chances are that your instinct will drive you to hold it up to your ear.

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Perhaps the greatest challenge ...

A study of 780,000-year-old food remains has shed light on the diets of prehistoric human hunter-gatherers. The research has revealed that hominins—a group containing modern humans plus our closest ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...

(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

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In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...

Archaeologists excavate near the cave at the Sima del Elefante site, near Burgos in northern Spain, where the fossilized skull fragments were found. - Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA The story of human ...

(CNN) — The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that ...