A 9-year-old boy's accidental discovery of a 1.2-million-year-old stegomastodon skull in New Mexico has stunned scientists ...

Peter HoudeDr. Peter Houde with the Sparks brothers during the Stegomastodon excavation. There are benefits to being clumsy.

Archaeologists working in the Peruvian Andes have uncovered intriguing evidence of how ancient civilisations used hallucinogens in religious rituals to uphold social hierarchies. At the Chavín de ...

As Napoleon Bonaparte consolidated his power in France in 1802, he commissioned the master armorer at the state armory in Versailles to make him a sword. This magnificent blade, which Napoleon kept by ...

Everyone knows about the dinosaur extinction but not many know about the rise of mammals that followed, such as the gomphotheres. This group of proboscideans began roaming on Earth around the end of ...

After years of examining a bounty of bones discovered by an amateur fossil hunter on a beach in England, paleontologists have concluded that the fossils belonged to a previously unknown species of ...