The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

The oldest bat skeletons in the world have been identified as a new species, helping scientists fill in the spotty fossil record of these flying mammals and providing new clues about how they evolved.

The first excavation at the famed Tower of London in a generation uncovered more than 20 skeletal remains. Excavations revealed everything from a 14 th-century Black Death group burial to three ...

Millions of years ago, Spike would have roamed what were — back then at least — the abundant wetlands and coastal plains of western North America. Lately, however, a swanky showroom in central London ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared to its other sides, where the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were once located. Recent work there has shown that ...

Ancient bones can surprise anyone who assumes the past always lines up neatly. Scientists pulled fragments of DNA from people who lived on the Bogotá Altiplano thousands of years ago, and the results ...