Tool use isn’t just for humans! From birds to primates, some animals have mastered using objects to solve problems, hunt, and ...

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

UNESCO designated 16 new geoparks, bringing the total number of sites in the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network to 229 in 50 countries. The network ...

M ore than 10,000 years ago, a group of Indigenous Americans with close genetic ties to the mysterious Clovis people buried a ...

But to come upon more than 100 prehistoric motifs ... “It was covered by a bear scratch,” Ruiz-Redondo says. The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ...

An ant preserved in 16 million-year-old amber mastered the art of camouflage. A rare 16 million-year-old ant preserved in amber is helping scientists uncover new secrets about one of nature's most ...

Scientists use flashlights to illuminate man-made engravings dating back to about 30,000 years, constituting the so-called panneau de la Decouverte (Discovery panel) located some 150 meters inside the ...

Another possible flute from Slovenia, made from a cave bear femur, was dated to over 50,000 years ago and is suggested to have been made by Neanderthals. We don’t know how these flutes were used ...

like this cave bear. (All photos courtesy of Luis Espinasa) Mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, camels, bison, glyptodons and gigantic five-ton sloths: all of them once roamed what today is called Mexico.