Critics have long disputed who was the very first punk rock band, with The Stooges, The Ramones and Rocket From The Tombs ...

Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park sits quietly in the Santa Ynez Mountains above Santa Barbara, a pocket-sized wonder that packs a historical punch far beyond its modest dimensions. The ...

A new book is exploring how stones act a window into Cumbria and northern England's prehistoric history. The new book, Defined by Stones, from chartered geologist Ian Jackson, delves into Cumbria and ...

A reconstruction of a Bronze Age coracle has been completed 50 years after the prehistoric boat was discovered buried in Fife ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

New research reveals that early humans changed Europe’s landscapes long before farming began, using fire and hunting to alter ecosystems.

For years, scientists thought Antarctica was the main source of meltwater that flooded the planet's oceans after the last ice age. But new research has flipped that story, and it has major ...

Scientists and niche-brewers have combined to make beer out of yeast that dates back almost to the time of the dinosaurs. And ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Peterborough palaeontologists have made an extraordinary discovery not far from the city – a rare giant ammonite that swam in ...

These animals have adapted to so much. But now they need our help to survive something they can’t adapt to quickly enough: a ...

New archaeological research challenges long-held assumptions about why ancient hunter-gatherers built the monumental earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana some 3,500 years ago. Rather than serving ...