Astonishing evidence for an ancient form of sophisticated machining into very hard stone can be seen on one of the artifacts ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside ...

Researchers have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest ...