Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 ...

Excavations in Wiltshire, England revealed a Neolithic timber circle whose cosmic precision rivals the stone monument it ...

DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

Photos of amazing, almost unreal places Who needs fantasy? Earth is full of “alien planets” and surreal beauty beyond ...

Some stalactites are incredibly skinny and fragile, hanging from the ceiling like delicate soda straws made of stone. Other ...

For weeks, a black mountain loomed over the Seine where Paris’ oldest bridge should have been — and then finally its doors ...

Research from Denisova Cave in Siberia shows how old sediment blocks preserved in resin can still contain ancient Neanderthal ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

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In the early 1930s, a teenage girl of Mexican heritage was exploring a long-abandoned mine tunnel in the Copper Canyon region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Buried beneath the dirt floor in a shallow, ...

The light fades as divers disappear farther into a cave system, until the greenish hue from their flashlight is all that’s visible, bouncing off walls, picking out creatures humans might never have ...