FAU scientist investigates fossilized remains of vertebrae

Quantifying 'dark data' in fossil collections is a call to arms; heralds a digital revolution

A new analysis is shedding light on the earth's first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota

Evidence suggests that stone mortars from Raqefet Cave, Israel, were used in brewing cereal-based beer millennia before the establishment of sedentary villages and cereal agriculture

It is the first time that extensive tests have been carried out on an intact prehistoric mummy

Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how they came to be there

UNSW scientists have shown for the first time that a series of high-profile burial sites in the Pacific, Mediterranean, and northern Scotland were likely related to catastrophic tsunamis

A team of paleontologists discovered new sources of the pigment melanin, calling for a rethink of how scientists reconstruct the color of fossil birds, reptiles, and dinosaurs

Once-hidden North American mounds could reveal valuable information about pre-contact Native Americans

In 1991, German tourists discovered in the Eastern Italian Alps a human body that was later determined to be the oldest naturally preserved ice mummy, known as Otzi, or the Iceman